BEFORE THE 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

WASHINGTON, D.C. 

Agreements Adopted by the Traffic 

Conferences of the International Air 

Transport Association 

OST-2012-XXXX

APPLICATION FOR APPROVAL OF AGREEMENTS 

BY THE 

INTERNATIONAL AIR TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION

15 February 2012 

Communications with respect to 

this document should be sent to 

Douglas E. Lavin 

 Regional Vice President – North America 

International Air Transport Association 

1776 K.St. N.W. #12th Floor 

Washington DC 20006 
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Summary DOCKET: OST-2012-XXXX US DOT ORDER: pending

Date: 15 February 2012 

Filing fee / IATA Acct: USD 61 / 0000-06 

US/UST involved: Yes

End of Government Filing Period: 24 February 2012

Meeting site, date: MV701 

Intended effective date: 15 March 2012 / Implementation: 1Apr12 

Agreement: PTC COMP 

Mail Vote 701 - Resolution 011a 

Mileage Manual Non TC Member / Non IATA Carrier Sectors 

Intended Effective Date 15 March 2012 

for Implementation 1 April 2012 (Memo 1663)

 

R1 011a 
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APPLICATION FOR APPROVAL OF AGREEMENT

 Pursuant to statements submitted by Member airlines of the International Air Transport 

Association (IATA), the undersigned has been constituted to be their attorney-in-fact for filing 

with the Department of Transportation copies of agreements adopted by the IATA Traffic 

Conferences. 

 On their behalf, and pursuant to Sections 41308 and 41309 of Title 49 of the United 

States Code and Parts 303.03, 303.05 and 303.30(c) of Title 14 of the Code of Federal 

Regulations, I am filing with the Department this application for approval of an IATA 

agreement. 

 This agreement and related factual and explanatory material and documentation 

required by 14 C.F.R. 303.31 and Department and Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) precedent 

are contained in the IATA Traffic Conference documentation summarized above. 

 This agreement arises from the continuing process of Tariff Coordinating Conferences 

and was developed in the context of prior Department and CAB rulings addressing related 

resolutions which reflected regulatory and market conditions then in effect. Thus, the present 

agreement should be viewed as part of a dynamic process of IATA Member airline 

adjustment to governmental and economic factors. 

 On previous occasions, the Department has found such agreements to be consistent 

with the public interest when they do not result in fares or rates that are unlawful or injurious 

to competition in the markets at issue. Approval of the present agreement would not yield 

fares or rates that are unlawful or injurious to competition. Moreover, approval of this 

agreement, which reflects compromises among the differing economic and social 

philosophies of the many nations whose airlines are parties, will advance the public interest 

in maintaining good aviation relations with other countries. 

 We request early approval by the Department of the foregoing agreement, pursuant to 

49 U.S.C. 41309, and the grant of full antitrust immunity, pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 41308. 

 The conferral of full antitrust immunity would be in the public interest and necessary for 

the transaction to proceed. This agreement is a product of the IATA Tariff Coordinating 

Conferences which the Department found to be anticompetitive but nevertheless approved 

and immunized in Order 85-5-32 (May 6, 1985) on foreign policy and comity grounds 

because such action is necessary to achieve the serious transportation need of maintaining 

good aviation relations with other countries and these benefits are not obtainable by 

reasonably available means having materially less anticompetitive effects. 

 This agreement concerns fares or rates between non-U.S. points and thus has at most 

indirect application in foreign air transportation. The U.S. authorities have recognized (e.g, 

Order 79-8-194, 30 August 1979) that the interests of sovereign nations in the conditions 

governing air transportation between them greatly exceed any that the U.S. might have by 

reason of U.S. airline, citizen or shipper participation. This agreement is not adverse to the 

public interest or in violation of the Act and, therefore, should be granted full immunity. 

Respectfully submitted 

___________________________ 

 Douglas Lavin 

 Regional Vice President – North America 

International Air Transport Association 
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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

 A copy of this application or a summary notice thereof has been served by first class or 

priority mail on the following person 

Chief, Transportation, Energy & Agriculture Section 

Antitrust Division 

Department of Justice 

Washington D.C. 20530 

________________________________ 

 Douglas E. Lavin 

15 February 2012 

Date Served 
International Air Transport Association 

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PO Box 416 

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Switzerland 

Tel: +41 22 770 2842 

Fax +41 22 770 2896 

AS www.iata.org E-Mail: tariffs@iata.org 

9 February 2012 

MEMORANDUM

PTC COMP 1663 

TO: Members Participating in Tariff Coordinating Conferences 

FROM: Manager, Tariffs and Reservation Standards 

SUBJECT: PTC COMP 

Mail Vote 701 - Resolution 011a 

Mileage Manual Non TC Member / Non IATA Carrier Sectors 

 Intended Effective Date 15 March 2012 for Implementation 1 April 2012 

MAIL VOTE - ADOPTION

As no negative votes were cast during the voting period which expired 9 February 2012, 1400 hours 

Geneva time, Mail Vote 7011 as circulated by MV701-1 dated 2 February is declared adopted. 

1. IATA analysed the non-TC Member / Non-IATA carrier non-stop sectors which should be included 

as Resolution 011a sectors in the 43rd edition of the Mileage Manual, in order to prevent mileage 

constructions resulting in inflated mileages. 

2. As a result of this analysis, IATA proposes the attached revision to Attachment A to Resolution 

011a. Other Resolution 011a sectors currently contained in Attachment A have been maintained 

unchanged. 

3. The attached revision reflects a number of deleted sectors. These deletions may have occurred 

for the following reasons: 

Ò the sector is now operated all year by a TC Member in both directions 

Ò the sector is no longer necessary as a Resolution 011a sector because a new TC 

Member services in the area 

Ò another sector may be more effective as a Resolution 011a sector in the same area 

Ò the sector is no longer operated 

4. As background, Shortest Operated Mileages (SOM) excluding 011a sectors compared with 011a 

sector mileages have been shown in the attached revision against each new selected sector. 

The filing period for this Mail Vote ends 24 February 2012. Members are reminded of their obligations 

under Resolutions 001 and 006 to advise this office by the end of the filing period whether approval by 

their Government authorities is required and, if so, to accomplish the necessary filing formalities. The 

effective date will be declared in accordance with Resolutions 001 and 006, when all the known 

necessary Government approvals have been received. 

Alban Sato 

Manager, Tariffs and Reservation Standards 

IDFS Passenger 
ADOPTED Res Doc: 1 

 Resolution: 011a 

PTC COMP1663 

MV701 Feb12 

MILEAGE MANUAL NON-TC MEMBER/NON-IATA CARRIER SECTORS 

PTC COMP (Mail 661) 011a Amending 

 

Filing Period Begins 10February 2012 Intended Effectiveness 15 March 2012 

 Ends 24 February 2012 Implementation 01 April 2012

 Expiry Indefinite 

 Type B 

RESOLVED that, Resolution 011a, Attachment ‘A’ is amended as follows: 

MM43 - RESOLUTION 011A SECTORS 

 BETWEEN AND

Code City Code City GCD SOM Action 

ABJ Abidjan NIM Niamey Delete 

ALA Almaty DYU Dushanbe Delete 

ALA Almaty TAS Tashkent Delete 

ATQ Amristar KBL Kabul Delete 

AUA Aruba MAR Maracaibo 168 1232 New 

ATH Athens ITA Tirana Delete 

BKO Bamako CKY Conakry Delete 

BGI Barbados SLU St Lucia 115 445 New 

FRU Bishkek DYU Dushanbe Delete 

BZV Brazzaville KGL Kigali 1039 2432 New 

CTG Cartagena MAR Maracaibo Delete 

CTG Cartagena CUR Curacao 461 1036 New 

COO Cotonou NIM Niamey Delete 

CUR Curacao KIN Kingston 659 1743 New 

CUR Curacao LSP Las Piedras 90 1498 New 

CUR Curacao SXM St Maarten 562 2009 New 

EBB Entebbe JUB Juba 339 2125 New 

FLL Fort Lauderdale NAS Nassau 183 454 New 

FOC Fuzhou TPE Taipei Delete 

GND Grenada POS Port of Spain Delete 

KHH Kaohsiung XMN Xiamen Delete 

KCH Kuching PNK Pontianak 130 1452 New 

MRV Mineralnye Vo EVN Yerevan Delete 

MSQ Minsk MOW Moscow Delete 

NAS Nassau PBI West Palm Beach Delete 

ROV Rostov EVN Yerevan 544 1414 New 

SLA Salta SRZ Santa Cruz 521 2012 New 

SKP Skopje SOF Sofia Delete 

SKP Skopje TIA Tirana Delete 

SOF Sofia TIA Tirana Delete 

TXG Taichung XMN Xiamen Delete 

THR Tehran EVN Yerevan Delete