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

DEPARTMENT ACTION ON APPLICATION IN DOCKET DOT

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Asiana Airlines, Inc. ( Asiana ) requests a s tatement of a uthorizati on under 14 CFR Part 212 permitting Asiana to display the “SQ” designator code of Singapore Airlines Limited (Singapore) on Asiana operated flights from a point or points behind Korea, via Korea and intermediate points, to a point or points in the United S tates, and beyond, for the purposes of transporting Singapore’s traffic between Singapore and the United States

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The applicant also request a waiver of the 45

- day advance filing requirement under 14 CFR Part 212.

Approved under assigned authority (14 CF R §385.13).

Date of Action: April 18 , 2014

_____________________________________________ Director, Office of International Aviation

This action is subject to the conditions attached ( see Attachment A). 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 effectiven ess.
We may amend, modify, or revoke the authority granted at any time without hearing at our discretion.

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The statement of authorization granted is subject to the following conditions:

(a) The statement of authorization will remain in effect only as long as (i) Asiana and Singapore 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 ) Asiana and/o r Singapore 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 service will begin. S uch notices should be filed in Docket DOT

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( c ) Asiana and/or Singapore must notify the Department immediately if the code

- share agreement under which these code

- share services are operated is no longer in effect or if the carriers decide to cease operating all or a portion of the approved code

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

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( d ) The code

- sharing operations conducted under this authority must comply with 14 CFR Part 257 and with any amendments t o 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 trans portation be sold in the name of the carrier holding out such service in 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 sha re 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 Asiana nor Sin gapore shall give any force or effect to any contractual provisions between themselves that are contrary to these conditions ; and

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

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

1 Asiana gave notice of its intent to engage in code

- share services between open

- skies points, and initially plans to display the “SQ” designator code on flights between Seoul, Korea, on the one hand, and Los Angeles, Honolulu, and Seattle, on the other hand.
2 We expect this notification to be received within 10 days of such non

- effectiveness or of such decision.