Application of: 

BEFORE THE UNITED STATES 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

WASHINGTON, D.C. 

SERVICIOS AEREOS GANA, S.A. DE C.V. 

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Docket No. OST-99-5009 

for an exemption pursuant to 49 USC 40109 (U.S./Mexico Charter Air Transportation) 

APPLICATION OF SERVICIOS AEREOS GANA, S.A. DE C. V., 

FOR RENEWAL OF EXEMPTION 

Dated: July 11, 2013 

Communication with respect to this document 

should be sent to: 

Lie. Leticia Delgado 

1209 San Daria Avenue 

PMB 7-680 

Laredo, Texas 78040-4505 

U.S.A. 

San Luis Potosi, phone: 011-52-444-814-1360 

fax: 011-52-444-812-1363 

Notice: Any person may support or oppose this application by filing an answer and serving a 

copy of the answer on counsel for SERVICIOS AEREOS GANA, S.A. de C.V., and 

upon each person served with .this application. The due date for answers is July 26, 

2013. 
Application of: 

BEFORE THE UNITED STATES 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

WASHINGTON, D.C. 

SERVICIOS AEREOS GANA, S.A. DE C. V. 

for an exemption pursuant to 49 USC 40109 (U.S./Mexico Charter Air Transportation) 

APPLICATION OF SERVICIOS AEREOS GANA, S.A. DE C. V. 

FOR RENEWAL OF EXEMPTION 

Pursuant to 49 U. S. C. 40109 and the Department's regulations, 

SERVICIOS AEREOS GANA, S.A. DE C.V. (GANA) hereby applies for renewal of its exemption 

from 49 U.S C. 40301 which authorizes GANA to engage in charter foreign air transportation of 

persons and their accompanying baggage with small aircraft between the United States and 

Mexico, and, subject to prior Department approval. between other countries and the United States. 

GANA also requests renewal of its relief from the requirement to obtain advance approval for each 

Mexico-U.S. flight and stopover privileges. The Department granted the above authority to GANA by 

Notice of Action Taken dated August 5, 2011. GANA requests that this authority, which is 

scheduled to expire on August 5, 2013, be renewed for a period of two years. 

GANA invokes the automatic extension provisions of the Administrative 

Procedure Act, 5 U. S. C. 558 (c), as implemented by 14 C.F.R. Part 377, to maintain its exemption 

authority in effect pending a final Department determination on this renewal application. 

In support of this application, GANA states as follows: 

1:- GANA continues to be fit, willing and able to provide the small aircraft 

passenger charter services for which it requests renewed authority. The relevant circumstances 

under which GANA its initial grant of exemption authority are unchanged. 

2.- GANA's Third and Fourth Freedom charter authority is authorized by 

Annex II to the U. S. -Mexico Air Transport Agreement, and is therefore presumptively in the public 
interest. GANA's Fifth Freedom charter authority is based on principles of comity and reciprocity, 

as is its relief from the advance approval requirement for transborder charter flights and any grant 

of stopover privileges. GANA submits that continuation of this extra -bilateral authorizations is 

warranted given the harmonious state of aviation relations between the U.S. and Mexico. 

Consequently, renewal of all elements of GANA's authority would be consistent with the public 

- interest. Further, the services provided by GANA satisfy a continuing need and other wise serve the 

public interest by fostering commerce between Mexico and . the United States consistent with the 

objectives of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) 

3.- GANA's renewal application is limited in scope and non-controversial. 

The services GANA proposes to operate are substantially identical to those it performed during the 

past year, i.e. highly personalized transport services to executives and their invitees using small 

business-type aircraft. GANA's Mexican authority to engage in transborder passenger charter 

services remains in full force and effect, as does its U.S. authority pursuant to its FAA Part 129 

Operations Specifications. 

WHEREFORE, GANA respectfully requests renewal of its authority to 

engage in charter foreign air transportation of persons and their accompanying baggage with small 

aircraft as set forth herein, and such other relief as may be in the public interest. 

Respectfully submitted, 

Lie. Leticia Delgado 

SERVICIOS AEREOS ~ GANA, S.A. DE C. V 

July 11, 2013