Approved under assigned authority on

September 27 , 2010 *



## Linda L. Lundell (for)

Director, Office of International A viation



# AMERICAN AIRLINES

September 23, 2010

Paul L. Gretch

Director, Office of International

Aviation

Department of Transportation

1200 New Jersey Ave., S.E.

Washington, D.C. 20590

Re: Notice of American Airlines (Chicago

- Mexico City)

(DOT

- OST

- 2004

- 16945)_____________________________

Dear Mr. Gretch:

American Airlines, Inc. hereby provides notice that, effe ctive

December 16, 2010, or as soon as all necessary authorizations are

obtained, it will resume nonstop operations with its own aircraft

between Chicago and Mexico City.

American will operate daily nonstop service on a year

- round

basis using 148

- seat B737 aircraft (16C/132Y). South

- bound, American

will depart Chicago at 0900 and arrive in Mexico City at 1315.

Northbound, American will depart Mexico City at 1420 an d arrive in

Chicago at 1810.

American’s certificate of public convenience and neces

- sity for

Route 628 authorizes scheduled foreign air transport

tation of persons, property, and mail on several U.S.

- Mexico

transborder route segments, including Ch icago

- Mexico City. American

started operating ORD

- MEX service in the 1940s. On May 16, 2004,

American began reciprocal codeshare services with Mexicana between

Chicago and Mexico City, as authorized by Notice of Action Taken in

this docket dated April 29 , 2004. American continued to display the

AA* code on Mexicana’s Chicago

- Mexico City flights until Mexicana

ceased operations on August 11, 2010.

On May 9, 2009, American suspended its own

- metal ORD

- MEX

nonstop flights, but inadvertently did no t provide notice to the

Department as required by Order 99

- 6

- 6, June 4, 1999, p. 9:

* We approve American’s request to convert its Chicago

- Mexico City operations

from code

- share

- only to direct

- carrier s ervice.- 2

–

“Any U.S. carrier wishing to convert its authorized

nonstop transborder operations from direct carrier

service (designation) to service involving on ly

the display of its code on another Mexican or U.S.

carrier’s flights (codeshare

- only authorization),

or vice versa, must file a notice with the Depart

ment . . . . If no party opposes the request, and

sufficient designations or codeshare

- onl y authori

zations, as applicable, are available, we will

convert the operations as requested.”

By this letter, American provides notice that it will resume

own

- metal nonstop operations between Chicago and Mexico City effective

December 16, 2010, and requests that the Depart

- ment convert

American’s authorized ORD

- MEX operations from codeshare

- only to direct

carrier service.

We are polling the parties named on the attached service list

for non

- objections.

Respectfully submitted,

Carl B. Nelson

Associate General Counsel

American Airlines, Inc.

1101 17 th Street, N.W., Suite 600

Washington, D.C. 20036

(202) 496

- 5647

carl.nelson@aa.com

cc: Docket Branch

Esta Rosenberg

Linda Lundell

Service listCERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I hereby certify that I have this day served the

foregoing document by email on the following carriers:

Air Tran epfaberman@wileyrein.com

Frontier

Alaska / Horizon msinick@ssd.com

Amerijet jrichardson@johnlrichardson.com

Continental d an. weiss @coair.com

ExpressJet

Delta sascha.vanderbellen@delta.com

Pinnacle

SkyW est

JetBlue jhill@dowlohnes.com

Spirit jyoung@yklaw.com

Sun Country john.fredericksen@su ncountry.com

United , Mesa jeffrey.manley@united.com

US Airways howard.kass@usairways.com

USA 3000 pmurphy@lopmurphy.com

FedEx nssparks@fedex.com

UPS dfisher @kelleydrye.com

ABX rsilverberg@sgbdc.co m

________________________ CARL B. NELSON

September 2 3 , 2010