BEFORE THE 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

WASHINGTON, D.C. 

Application of 

AIR CANADA 

for renewal of a Statement of Authorization 

ursuant to 14 C.F.R. 212 

Docket OST -2012-0196 

APPLICATION OF AIR CANADA 

FOR RENEWAL OF A STATEMENT OF AUTHORIZATION 

Communications concerning this document may be served upon: 

Anita M. Mosner 

Jennifer M. Nowak 

Holland & Knight LLP 

800 17TH Street, NW 

Suite 11 00 

Washington, DC 20006 

Tel: (202) 419-2604 

Fax: (202) 955-5564 

anita. mosner@hklaw. com 

Counsel for Air Canada 

November 17, 2014 

NOTICE: Any person may file an answer to this application. Answers must be 

filed on or before November 26, 2014. 
Application of 

AIR CANADA 

BEFORE THE 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

WASHINGTON, D.C. 

Docket OST -2012-0196 

for renewal of a Statement of Authorization 

ursuant to 14 C.F.R. 212 

APPLICATION OF AIR CANADA 

FOR RENEWAL OF A STATEMENT OF AUTHORIZATION 

Pursuant to 14 C.F.R. Part 212, Air Canada hereby applies for renewal of its 

Statement of Authorization which permits Air Canada to display the South African 

Airways ("SAA'') "SA*" airline designator code on certain flights operated by Air Canada 

pursuant to its reciprocal codeshare arrangement with SAA. The Statement of 

Authorization was originally issued on December 4, 2012 in the above-captioned docket. 

The authority is scheduled to expire on January 2, 2015. 

In support of its Application, Air Canada submits the following: 

1. Air Canada requests renewal of the Statement of Authorization which 

permits it to display SAA's SA* designator code on flights operated by Air Canada 1 

between points in Canada and SAA's U.S. gateways that connect with SAA's service to 

South Africa. SAA does not and will not carry local traffic between the U.S. and Canada. 

1 Some of the flights operated under this arrangement may be performed by Jazz Aviation 

("Jazz") LP, Sky Regional Airlines lnc./Lignes Aeriennes Sky Regional Inc. ("Sky Regional"), or 

Air Georgian Limited ("Air Georgian"), carrying the AC* code. Jazz holds a Foreign Air Carrier 

Permit and has broad-based authority to display the AC* code on its flights. Order 2009-6-13, 

Docket OST-2009-0024; Air Canada/Jazz Statement of Authorization, Docket OST-2009-0025 

(Feb. 25, 2009). Sky Regional holds a Foreign Air Carrier Permit and holds a Statement of 

Authorization to operate U.S.-Canada trans-border services on behalf of Air Canada. Order 

2011-7-11 , Docket OST -2011-0045; Notice of Action Taken in Docket OST -2013-0010 (Aug. 13, 

2013). Air Georgian holds a Foreign Air Carrier Permit and a Statement of Authorization to 

display the AC* designator code on flights it operates between the U.S. and Canada. Order 

2003-8-3, Docket OST-2002-11526; Department Action on Application, Dockets OST-2000-7012, 

OST-2000-7771 , and OST-2013-0156 (Aug. 19, 2013). 
Air Canada 

Application for Renewal 

2. Air Canada and SAA continue to hold the underlying economic authority 

required to provide this codeshare service. 

3. Air Canada holds a foreign air carrier permit that authorizes it, inter alia, 

to engage in scheduled foreign air transportation of persons, property, and mail from 

points behind Canada, via Canada and intermediate points, to a point or points in the 

United States and beyond. Order 2008-9-23 (July 18, 2008), Docket No. OST-2007-

28768. Under the U.S.-Canada Open Skies Agreement, Air Canada may offer this 

service either on its own, or in conjunction with a codeshare partner (or partners). See 

U.S.-Canada Open Skies Agreement, Para. 6, Art. 11. 

4. SAA holds exemption authority to engage in scheduled foreign air 

transportation of persons, property, and mail between: 

a. Johannesburg and New York, New York via llha do Sal, Cape Verde; 

b. Johannesburg/Cape Town and Miami, Florida; 

c. Johannesburg and Los Angeles, California (and on this Los Angeles 

route, to commingle blind sector traffic not moving in foreign air 

transportation between Johannesburg and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); 

d. Johannesburg/Cape Town and Atlanta, Georgia, via llha do Sal, Cape 

Verde; 

e. Johannesburg/Cape Town and Washington, DC, via llha do Sal, Cape 

Verde;2 

f. SAA's U.S. gateways and Dakar, Senegal, as an intermediate point on 

SAA's authorized U.S.-South Africa services;

3 and 

g. SAA's U.S. gateways and South Africa via intermediate points with local 

traffic rights as permissible under the U.S.-South Africa Agreement and 

via other intermediate points without local traffic rights.

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2 Notice of Action Taken, Dockets DOT-OST-1999-6555 and DOT-OST-2000-6756 (Feb. 18, 

2011 ). SAA timely filed an application for renewal of its exemption authority in these dockets on 

February 8, 2013. Its authority remains in effect pursuant to the automatic extension provisions 

of 5 U.S. C. § 558(c), as implemented by Part 377 of the Department's procedural regulations. 3 Notice of Action Taken, Docket OST-2002-13366, dated March 21 , 2005. 

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Air Canada 

Application for Renewal 

The Department also has authorized SAA, inter alia, to (i) serve Los Angeles, New York, 

Miami, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. on a co-terminal basis and (ii) provide 

codesharing service beyond the U.S. to third countries on a blind-sector basis. 5 

5. The codeshare service continues to be consistent with the Open Skies 

Agreement between the U.S. and Canada,

6 and the 1996 U.S.-South Africa Air 

Transport Agreement ("U.S.-S.A. Agreement").

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6. The Department has found that this service is consistent with the public 

interest. Nothing has occurred since that decision that would in any way contradict that 

finding. 

7. Air Canada agrees to continue to abide by the consumer notification 

requirements of 14 C.F.R. Part 257, as well as the other conditions and limitations the 

Department attached to its Statement of Authorization. 

8. Air Canada requests that the Statement of Authorization be renewed for a 

period of at least two years. 

9. This renewal application is timely filed. Air Canada hereby invokes the 

automatic extension provisions of 5 U.S. C. § 558(c), as implemented by Part 377 of the 

Department's procedural regulations. 

4 Notice of Action Taken, Dockets DOT-OST-1999-6555 and DOT-OST-2000-6756 (Dec. 4, 

2012). 

5 Notice of Action Taken in OST-1999-6555 and OST-2000-6756, dated April 26, 2012. 6 The U.S-Canada Open Skies Agreement states, "any designated airline of one Party may enter 

into cooperative marketing arrangements such as blocked-space, code-sharing or leasing 

arrangements, with an airline or airlines of either Party [and] an airline or airlines of a third country 

.... " Para. 6, Art. 11. 7 Similarly, the U.S.-S.A. Agreement authorizes any airline of either country to enter into 

cooperative marketing arrangements with any airline or airlines of a third country. Annex, Section 

6. 

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Air Canada 

Application for Renewal 

WHEREFORE, Air Canada respectfully requests that the Department renew Air 

Canada's Statement of Authorization as described above and to grant it such other and 

different relief as is consistent with this application and with the public interest. 

Anita M. Mesner 

Jennifer M. Nowak 

Holland & Knight LLP 

Attorneys for Air Canada 

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE 

hereby certify that I have this date served the foregoing document on the persons 

identified below by causing a copy to be sent by electronic mail. 

robert.wirick@aa.com 

howard. kass@aa. com 

sharon. pasley@fedex. com 

sllunsford@fedex.com 

cefelts@fedex.com 

dan.weiss@united.com 

sascha. vanderbellen @delta. com 

jyoung@yklaw.com (Counsel for Spirit Airlines) 

dkirstein@yklaw.com (Counsel for Spirit Airlines) 

marshall.sinick@ssd.com (Counsel for Alaska Airlines) 

agoerlich@ggh-airlaw.com (Counsel for Allegiant and Ryan International) 

rpommer@atlasair.com 

kevin. montgomery@polaraircargo. com 

anita.mosner@hklaw.com (Counsel for United Parcel Service) 

jennifer.nowak@hklaw.com (Counsel for United Parcel Service) 

dsmalls@ups.com 

matwood@cozen.com (Counsel for Kalitta) 

john.s.duncan@faa.gov 

cristinasa@state. gov