U.S. Department of Transportation Office of the Secretary of Transportation

DEPARTMENT ACTION ON APPLICATION IN DOCKET DOT

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Application of Société Air France (Air France) for a statement of authorization to permit Air France to display the RO* designator code of S.C. Compania Nationala de Transporturi Aeriene Romane

- Tarom S.A. (TAROM) on f l ights operated by Air France (1) from any point or points behind any Member State of the European Union , via any point or points in any Member State and via intermediate points to any point or points in the United States and beyond ; and ( 2) between any point or points in the United States and any point or points in any member of the European Common Aviation Area

. Air France also requests a waiver of the 45

- day advance filing requirements under 14 CFR Part 212. 1



### Approved under assigned authority (14 CFR § 385.13)

Date of Action: November 17, 2010

_________________________________ Director, Office of Int ernational Aviation

This action is subject to the conditions attached. Persons entitled to petition the Department for review of this action under the Department’s regulations, 14 CFR § 385.30, should file their petitions within seven days of the date of this action. This action is effective immediately, and the filing of a petition for review will not alter its effectiveness.

An electronic version of this document is available on the World Wide Web at: http://www.regulations.gov

1 The Department is acting on Air France’s request prior to the expiration of the 45

- day advance filing requirement with the consent of all parties served.Docket DOT

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Application of Société Air France (Air France) for a statement of authorization to permit Air France to display the RO* designator code of S.C. Compania Nationala de Transporturi Aeriene Romane

- Tarom S.A. (TAROM) on f l ights operated by Air France (1) from any point or points behind any Member State of the European Union, via any point or points in any Member State and via intermediate points to any point or points in the United States and beyond; and (2) between any point or points in the United States and any point or points in any member of the European Common Aviation Area.

The code

- share operations authorized here are subject to the following conditions :
(a) The statement of authorization will remain in effect only as long as (i) Air France and TAROM continue to hold the necessary underlying authority to operate the code

- share services at issue, and (ii) the code

- share agreement providing for the code

- share operations remains in effect.

(b) Air France and TAROM must promptly notify the Departme nt if the code

- share agreement providing for the code

- share operations is no longer effective or the carriers decide to cease operating the approved code

- share services. Such notice should be filed in Docket DOT

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(c) Air France and TAROM m ust notify the Department no later than 30 days before they begin any new code

- share service under the code

- share services authorized here. Such notice shall identify the market(s) to be served and the date on which the services will begin. Such notices shall be filed in Docket DOT

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d) The code

- sharing operations conducted under this authority must comply with 14 CFR 257 and with any amendments to the Department’s regulations concerning code

- share arrangements that may be adopted. Notwit hstanding any provisions in the contract between the carriers, our approval here is expressly conditioned upon the requirements that the subject foreign air transportation be sold in the name of the carrier holding out such service in the computer reservat ion systems and elsewhere; that the carrier selling such transportation (i.e., the carrier shown on the ticket) accept responsibility for the entirety of the code

- share journey for all obligations established in its contract of carriage with the passenger; and that the passenger liability of the operating carrier be unaffected.

( e ) The authority granted here is specifically conditioned so that neither Air France nor TAROM shall give any force or effect to any contractual provisions between themselves that are contrary to these conditions.

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) We may amend, modify, or revoke the authority granted at any time without hearing at our discretion.

2 We expect this notification to be received within 10 days of such non

- effectiveness or of such decision.Attachment

Initial Code

- Share Markets TAROM RO* code on flights operated by Air France

Between Paris (CDG) a nd:

Detroit (DTW) New York (JFK) Washington, DC (IAD)