U.S. Department of

Transportation

Office of the Secretary

of Transportation

DEPARTMENT ACTION ON APPLICATION IN DOCKET DOT-OST-2010-0269

filed October 27, 2010 

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 flights 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

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Director, Office of International 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-OST-2010-0269

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 flights 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 Department 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-OST2010-0269.

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(c) Air France and TAROM must 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-OST-2010-0269.

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. Notwithstanding 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 reservation 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.

(f) 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) and:

Detroit (DTW)

New York (JFK)

Washington, DC (IAD)