\\DC - 033583/000001 - 5111259 v2 BEFORE THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

WASHINGTON, D.C.

Application of RÉGIONAL, compagnie aérienne européenne for renewal of exemption from 49 U.S.C. § 41301 ) ) ) ) ) Docket DOT-OST-2002-13610

APPLICATION OF RÉGIONAL, COMPAGNIE AÉRIENNE EUROPÉENNE

FOR RENEWAL OF EXEMPTION Communications with respect to this document should be addressed to: Laurent Timsit, Vice President – European and International Affairs SOCIÉTÉ AIR FRANCE 45, rue de Paris F-95747, Roissy CDG Cedex Paris, France Robert E. Cohn Patrick R. Rizzi HOGAN LOVELLS US LLP Columbia Square 555 Thirteenth Street, NW Washington, DC 20004 Telephone: +1 202 637 4999 / 5659 Facsimile: +1 202 637 5910 E-mail: robert.cohn@hoganlovells.com patrick.rizzi@hoganlovells.com Counsel for RÉGIONAL, compagnie aérienne européenne

September 6, 2013\\DC - 033583/000001 - 5111259 v2 BEFORE THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

WASHINGTON, D.C. Application of RÉGIONAL, compagnie aérienne européenne for renewal of exemption from 49 U.S.C. § 41301 ) ) ) ) ) Docket DOT-OST-2002-13610 September 6, 2013 APPLICATION OF RÉGIONAL, COMPAGNIE AÉRIENNE EUROPÉENNE

FOR RENEWAL OF EXEMPTION Pursuant to 49 U.S.C. § 40109, Régional, compagnie aérienne européene d/b/a HOP!-Regional and HOP! (“Regional”) 1 hereby applies for renewal of an exemption from 49 U.S.C. § 41301 to permit Regional to continue to display the airline designator code of Delta Air Lines, Inc. (“Delta”) on the intra-European city-pair segments Regional operates for Société Air France (“Air France”). Regional requests that such authority be renewed for a period of at least two years. In support of this Application, Regional states the following:1. By Notice of Action Taken dated November 20, 2002, in Dockets DOT-OST2002-13610 and DOT-OST-2000-6939, the Department granted a statement of authorization and exemption to permit Regional to display the airline designator code of Delta on flights operated by Regional for Air France. Most recently, on September 15, 2011, the Department renewed Regional’s exemption authority for two years, through September 15, 2013. The statement of authorization continues in effect indefinitely.2. As an Air France subsidiary, Regional has continued to operate intraEuropean flights under the Air France brand (and, more recently, under the HOP! brand)

1 By letter dated May 6, 2013, the Department acknowledged Regional’s registration of the trade names HOP!-Regional and HOP!Renewal Application of Regional Page 2

\\DC - 033583/000001 - 5111259 v2 and to list the Delta designator code (DL*) on such flights since the exemption authority and statement of authorization were initially granted. 3. The public interest considerations that supported the original grant of the exemption authority and subsequent renewal to Regional warrant continued renewal here. The flights operated by Regional that display Delta’s code afford substantial service benefits to consumers and the traveling public. Moreover, the services at issue in this renewal application are authorized under the U.S.–EU Open-Skies Air Transport Agreement. 4. As noted above, the exemption authority at issue is set to expire on September 15, 2013. This renewal application is timely filed. Accordingly, Regional invokes, and intends to rely on, the automatic extension provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C. § 558(c), as implemented by 14 C.F.R. Part 377, to continue its exemption authority in effect pending final Department action on this Application. 5. Regional requests that renewal of this exemption authority be for a period of at least two additional years, consistent with Department practice in similar cases. See, e.g., KLM Cityhopper B.V., Notice of Action Taken, dated March 5, 2007 (Docket DOT-OST-2003-14397); Regional, Notice of Action Taken, dated September 15, 2011 (Docket DOT-OST-2002-13610).Renewal Application of Regional Page 3

\\DC - 033583/000001 - 5111259 v2 WHEREFORE, Regional requests renewal of its exemption authority as requested herein.
Respectfully submitted,

________________________________ Robert E. Cohn Patrick R. Rizzi HOGAN LOVELLS US LLP 555 Thirteenth Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20004 +1 202 637 4999 / 5659 Counsel for RÉGIONAL, compagnie aérienne européenne\\DC - 033583/000001 - 5111259 v2 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that a copy of the foregoing Application of Régional, compagnie aériennne européenne, for Renewal of Exemption has been served this 6 th day of September, 2013, upon the following addressees:

robert.wirick@aa.com francis.heil@aa.com sascha.vanderbellen@delta.com chris.walker@delta.com dan.weiss@united.com steve.morrissey@united.com howard_kass@usairways.com urskr@state.gov

______________________________ Patrick Rizzi