August 13, 2013

Mr. Paul L. Gretch

Director

Office of International Aviation Department of Transportation 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE Washington, DC 20590

Re: United and Croatia Airlines Code Share

Docket DOT

- OST

- 2007

- 2 8897

Dear Mr. Gretch :

By this letter, United and Croatia Airlines (OU) request that the Department grant the remaining portion of their July 31, 2007 application filed in the above

- reference d docket and authorize OU to display United’s “UA” designator c ode on flights operated by OU: 1) between any points within Croatia in conjunction with services held out by United between the United States and Croatia (either non

- stop or via third

- country intermediate points); and 2 ) between any point in

Croatia and a ny point in any third country. United and OU already h old the requisite underlying authority to support these code share services. See Docket DOT

- OST

- 2004

- 19148 (United’s broad exemption authority) and Orders 2007

- 4

- 19 (United’s Open Skies Certificates) and Orders

2013

- 3

- 14 (reissuing Continental and United’s authorities under the name of “United Airlines, Inc.”)

. See also Notice of Action Taken dated June 6, 2012 in Docket DOT

- OST

- 2012

- 0084; Notice of Action Taken dated April 19, 2013 in Docket DOT

- OST

- 2007

- 28896 (OU’s exemption authority)

. United and OU are not aware of any regulatory impediment to the Department’s approval of the UA*/OU portion of the carrier’s application : the U.S.

- Croatia Open Skies Agreement is now in full effect and the FAA has al ready upgraded the Republic of Croatia’s safety assessment to Category 1 IASA status. Moreover, United has completed its

code

- share review of OU and has filed the compliance statements with FAA. Approval of United and OU’s request will complete the carri ers’ code share authorization and be consistent

with the Department ’s 2012 approv al the OU/US Airways code share application. See Notice of Action Taken dated June 6, 2012 in Docket DOT

- OST

- 2012

- 0084.

In addition, pursuant to the Department’s Notice In the Matter of Blanket Notification of Code Share Service to Open

- Skies Partners and Points, dated February 9, 2009, United and OU

, hereby give blanket notice of reciprocal code share services :

• Between any point(s) in the United States and any point(s) in Croatia, on a non

- stop basis and intermediate routings via open

- skies po i nts;

• Between points in the United States;

• Between points in Croatia;August 13, 2013 Page 2

• Beyond Croatia to any open

- skies point(s); and

• Beyond the United States to any open

- skies point(s).

In addit ion, c ode

- share services conducted pursuant to this notice will be limited to those consistent with the provisions of the U.S.

- Croatia and other applicable Open

- Skies Agreements.

United and OU will provide the Department with 30

- day notices for code share services to and

from non

- Open Skies countries.

Respectfully submitted,

Dan Weiss Managing Director International Affairs & Regulatory UNITED AIRLINES, INC. David Heffernan

Counsel for

C ROATIA AIRLINES

cc: Esta Rosenberg

Robert FinamoreCERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I hereby certify that I have this date served a copy of the foregoing document on all persons named below by causing a copy to be sent via email:

msinick@ssd.com (Alaska) francis.heil@aa.com

robert.wirick@aa.com rsilverberg@sgbdc.com (ABX/Air Transport Intl.) jrichardson@johnlrichardson.com (Amerijet) jcanny@amerijet.com rpommer@atlasair.com

sascha.vanderbel len@delta.com charters@evergreenairlines.com (Evergreen) cefelts@fedex.com

anbird@fedex.com nssparks@fedex.com robert.cohn@hoganlovells.com (Frontier) patrick.rizzi@hoganlovells.com (Frontier) jhill@dowlohnes.com (Hawaiian/JetBlue) matwood@cozen.com (Kalitta) kevin.montgomery@polaraircargo.com

bob .kneisley@wnco.com (AirTran/Southwest) leslie.abbott@wnco.com (AirTran/Southwest) dkirstein@yklaw.com (Spirit) jyoung@yklaw.co m (Spirit) john.fredericksen@suncountry.com

anita.mosner@hklaw.com (UPS) jennifer.nowak@hklaw.com (UPS) howard.kass@usairways.com barbara.russell@virginamerica.com mlbenge@zsrlaw.com (World) william.stallings@usdoj.gov dwight.moore@ustranscom.mil john.allen@faa.gov

Annalei Avanceña International Regulatory Ad visor

August 13, 2013