Approved under assigned authority on

September 27, 2010*

 

Linda L. Lundell (for)

Director, Office of International Aviation

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, effective 

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 and arrive in 

Chicago at 1810.

 American’s certificate of public convenience and neces-sity for 

Route 628 authorizes scheduled foreign air transporttation of persons, property, and mail on several U.S.-Mexico 

transborder route segments, including Chicago-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 not 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 service.
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 “Any U.S. carrier wishing to convert its authorized 

nonstop transborder operations from direct carrier 

service (designation) to service involving only

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

sufficient designations or codeshare-only authorizations, 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 17th Street, N.W., Suite 600

Washington, D.C. 20036

(202) 496-5647

carl.nelson@aa.com

cc: Docket Branch

Esta Rosenberg

Linda Lundell

Service list
CERTIFICATE 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 dan.weiss@coair.com

ExpressJet

 Delta sascha.vanderbellen@delta.com

 Pinnacle

 SkyWest

 JetBlue jhill@dowlohnes.com

 Spirit jyoung@yklaw.com

Sun Country john.fredericksen@suncountry.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.com

________________________

CARL B. NELSON

September 23, 2010