# AMERICAN EAGLE AIRLINES

February 28, 2013

Esta Rosenberg, Chief

U.S. Air Carrier Licensing Division

Office of International Aviation

Department of Transportation

1200 New Jersey Ave., S.E.

Washington, D.C. 20590

Re: American Eagle Airlines, Inc., Small Aircraft Service

Between Dallas/Ft. Worth and t wo additional points in

Mexico (DOT

- OST

- 2011

- 0076)

Dear Ms. Rosenberg:

American Eagle Airlines, Inc. hereby requests desig nation under

the U.S.

- Mexico Air Transport Agreement, as amended, in order to

provide scheduled foreign air transportation of persons,

property, and mail between Dallas/Ft

. Worth, Texas and

H ermosillo, Mexico and Zacatecas, Mexico using small aircraft.

Am erican Eagle proposes to operate n onstop service in these

markets using Embraer regional jet aircraft with between 37 and

50 seats starting on or about June 12, 2013 . American Eagle

proposes to operate these aircraft in the t wo listed markets

according to the following schedule:

**Route Depart**  **Arrive Frequency** 

Dallas/Ft. Worth

- Hermosillo 19:10 19:35 Daily

Hermosillo

- Dallas/Ft. Worth 7:00 11:30 Daily

Dallas/Ft. Worth

- Zacatecas 10:45 12:50 3x weekly

Zacatecas

- Dallas/Ft. Worth 13 : 30 1 5 : 50 3x weekly

American Eagle holds certificates of public convenience and

necessity to provide scheduled air transportation of persons,

property, and mail between and among points in the U.S. (Order

98

- 4

- 24, April 23, 1998), and to provide scheduled foreign air

transportation of persons, property, and mail between points in

the U.S. and points in open skies countries (Route 905, Order2011

- 8

- 9, August 12, 2011 ) , and between named points in Mexico

(Route 906, Order 2011

- 11

- 19, November 13, 20 11). American Eagle

also holds designations to serve between Dallas/Ft. Worth and

points in Mexico using small ai r craft (Aguascalientes, Leon,

Mazatlan, Morelia, Queretaro, Veracruz and Puebla )

.

The U.S.

- Mexico bilateral agreement provides that up to two U.S.

carriers may operate service in any U.S.

- Mexico city pair

market. No nonstop service is presently operated between

Dallas/Ft. Worth

- Hermosillo and Zacatecas

.

All of American Eagle’s operations are held out to the public

under the AA* code. To the extent required, we request a

codeshare designation as well as an operating designation in the

Dallas/Ft. Worth

- Hermosillo and Zacatecas market s

.

American is polling the carrier parties named on the attached

service list for non

- objections and will pro vide the department

with the results when our poll is completed.

Respectfully submitted,

___________________________ Francis C. Heil

Senior Attorney

American Airlines, Inc.

1101 17 th Street, N.W.

Suite 600

Washington, D.C. 20036

(202) 496

- 5642

francis.heil@aa.com

cc: Paul Gretch

Brett Kruger

Brian Hedberg

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-**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@dowlohnes.com

robert.land@jetblue.com

jonathan.linde@united.com

bob.kneisley@wnco.com

jyoung@yklaw.com

cdonley@ssd.com

gmurphy@crowell.com

benjamin.slocum@usairways.com

howard.kass@usairways.com

anita.mosner@hklaw.com

jennifer.nowak@hklaw.com

john.fredericksen@suncountry.com

Chris.pappaioanou@mesa

- air.com

Patrick.rizzi@hoganlovells.com

urskr@state.gov

________________________________ Francis C. Heil

February 28, 2013