**BEFORE THE**

**DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION**

**WASHINGTON, D. C.**

--------------------------------------------- Application of :

:

CONCESIONARIA VUELA COMPANIA DE AVIACION :

S.A.P.I. de C.V. d/b/a VOLARIS : DOT

- OST

- 2011

-

:

for an exemption from 49 USC 41301 :

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**ANSWER OF AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC.** 

Communications with respect to this document should be sent to:

VIRASB VAHIDI WILLIAM K. RIS, JR.

Senior Vice President

- Senior Vice President

- Marketing and Planning Government Affairs

and Chief Commercial Officer American Airlines, Inc.

American Airlines, Inc. 1101 17 th Street, N.W.

P.O. Box 619616, MD 5634 Washington, D.C. 20036

DFW Airport, Texas 75161

CARL B. NELSON

KENJI C. HASHIMOTO Associate General Counsel

Vice President

– Strategic American Airlines, Inc.

Alliances 1101 17 th Street, N.W.

American Airlines, Inc. Washington, D.C. 20036

P.O. Box 619616, MD 5635 (202) 496

- 5647

DF W Airport, Texas 75261 carl.nelson@aa.com

ROBERT A. WIRICK

Director, Regulatory Affairs

American Airlines, Inc.

P.O. Box 619616, MD 5635

DFW Airport, Texas 75261

(817) 963

- 0394

robert.wirick@aa.com

July 5 , 2011**BEFORE THE**

**DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION**

**WASHINGTON, D. C.**

--------------------------------------------- Application of :

:

CONCESIONARIA VUELA COMPANIA DE AVIACION : DOT-OST-2011-

S.A.P.I. de C.V. d/b/a VOLARIS : 0117

:

for an exemption from 49 USC 41301 :

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**ANSWER OF AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC.**

American Airlines, Inc. hereby answers the captioned

application filed on June 20, 2011 by Volaris seeking extrabilateral exemption authority in three Mexico-U.S. city-pairs:

Monterrey-Chicago, Mexico City-Las Vegas, and Mexico City-Los

Angeles.

American does not oppose the Volaris application,

provided that American’s request, filed today in the shell

docket, for extra-bilateral exemption authority to serve the

New York-Mexico City route, is also granted.

Respectfully submitted,

____________________________ CARL B. NELSON

Associate General Counsel

American Airlines, Inc.

July 5, 2011**CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE**

I hereby certify that I have this day served the foregoing document by email

on the following persons:

sascha.vanderbellen@delta.com jhill@dlalaw.com

scott.mcclain@delta.com bill@mietuslaw.com

sametta.c.barnett@delta.com mgoldman@sgbdc.com

kquinn@pillsburywinthrop.com rsilverberg@sgbdc.com

bkeiner@crowell.com dhainbach@ggh-airlaw.com

esahr@eckertseamons.com mcmillin@woa.com

bruce.rabinovitz@wilmerhale.com eskraft@jamhoff.com

thomas.bolling@coair.com dpdean@jamhoff.com

bob.kneisley@wnco.com dkirstein@yklaw.com

robert.land@jetblue.com jyoung@yklaw.com

msinick@ssd.com willim.stallings@usdoj.gov

cdonley@ssd.com dwight.moore@ustranscom.mil

gbleopard@fedex.com john.allen@faa.gov

david.heffernan@wilmerhale.com urskr@state.gov

kevin.montgomery@polaraircargo.com recohn@hoganlovells.com

jrichardson@johnlrichardson.com cjsimpson@zsrlaw.com

lhalloway@crowell.com pmurphy@lopmurphy.com

efaberman@wileyrein.com lachter@starpower.net

mroller@rollerbauer.com anita.mosner@hklaw.com

howard.kass@usairways.com jennifer.nowak@hklaw.com

benjamin.slocum@usairways.com gmurphy@crowell.com

dan.weiss@coair.com russell.bailey@alpa.org

rpommer@atlasair.com

alfonso.ascencio@volaris.com.mx

________________________________ CARL B. NELSON

July 5, 2011