BEFORE THE 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

WASHINGTON, D.C. 

Agreements Adopted by the Traffic 

Conferences of the International Air 

Transport Association 

OST-2011-XXXX

APPLICATION FOR APPROVAL OF AGREEMENTS 

BY THE 

INTERNATIONAL AIR TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION

5 May 2011 

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-2011-XXXX US DOT ORDER: pending

Date: 5 May 2011 

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

US/UST involved: No

End of Government Filing Period: 3 May 2011

Meeting site, date: Mail Vote 675 

Intended effective date: 1 July 2011 

Agreement: TC31 South West Pacific – TC1 (except Canada, USA) 

 Resolution 012p – Glossary of Terms 

 e-Tariffs, 4-22 April 2011 

 Intended Effective Date: 1 July 2011 

 (Memo 0229) 

r1 012p 
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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 

5 May 2011 

Date Served 
International Air Transport Association 

Route de l’Aéroport 33 

PO Box 416 

CH - 1215 Geneva 15 Airport 

Switzerland 

Tel: +41 22 770 2842 

Fax +41 22 770 2896 

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

25 April 2011 

MEMORANDUM

PTC31 SOUTH 0229 

TO: Members Participating in Tariff Coordinating Conferences 

FROM: Manager, Interline Tariffs 

SUBJECT: Mail Vote 675

TC31 South West Pacific – TC1 (except Canada, USA) 

 Flex Fares Resolutions 

 e-Tariffs, 4-22 April 2011 

 Intended Effective Date: 1 July 2011 

RESOLUTIONS - ADOPTED

Attached is the amendment to TC31 South West Pacific – TC1 (except Canada, USA) 

Resolution 012p which was adopted 22 April 2011 using the e-Tariffs process for an intended 

effective date of 1 July 2011. 

The filing period for the attached Resolution ends 3 May 2011. 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. 

Cristina Rotor 

Manager, Tariff Solutions & Distribution 

IDFS Passenger 
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED AT 

TC31 

SOUTH WEST PACIFIC – TC1 (EXCEPT CANADA, USA) 

PASSENGER TARIFF COORDINATING CONFERENCE 

MAIL VOTE 675 

e-TARIFFS, 4 – 22 APRIL 2011 

EFFECTIVE DATE: 1 JULY 2011 

RESO TITLE COMMENTS RD 

012p Glossary of Terms Amending 1 
ADOPTED Res Doc : 1 

 Resolution: 012p 

 

TC31 

GLOSSARY OF TERMS 

PTC31(MV675)012p Amending

Filing Period Begins 26 April 2011 Intended Effectiveness 1 July 2011 

 Ends 3 May 2011 Expiry Indefinite 

 Type B 

RESOLVED that, Resolution 012p, is amended as follows: 

TERM DEFINITION 

Caribbean Anguilla Guadeloupe 

 Antigua and Barbuda Haiti 

 Aruba Jamaica 

 Bahamas Martinique 

 Barbados Montserrat 

 Bermuda Netherlands Antilles 

 Bonaire, St. Eustatius, Saba St. Barthelemy 

 British Virgin Islands St. Kitts and Nevis 

 Cayman Islands Saint Lucia 

 Cuba St. Martin 

 Curacao St.Vincent and the Grenadines 

 Dominica Sint Maarten (Dutch part)

 Dominican Republic Trinidad and Tobago 

 Grenada Turks and Caicos Islands 

 

Central America Belize Guatemala 

 Costa Rica Honduras 

 El Salvador Nicaragua 

 

South America Argentina Guyana 

 Bolivia Panama 

 Brazil Paraguay 

 Chile Peru 

 Colombia Suriname 

 Ecuador Uruguay 

 French Guiana Venezuela 

 

Transpacific transportation between TC3 and TC1 via the Pacific Ocean 

 

(Note 

 The above is an amendment as a consequence of the change to country 

names following the break- up of the Netherlands Antilles.)