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PaulL. Gretch Director Office ofInternationalAviation Department ofTransportation Room W86--316 1200 New JerseyAvenue, SE Washington, DC 20590 July 22, 2010

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Re: SubstitutionofU.S.-Russia Third-Country Codeshare Partner/ Intermediate Point and Codeshare Notice ofContinental (Dockets DOT-OST-2008-0283 and DOT-OST-2009-0174)

Dear Mr. Gretch:
By Order 2008-11-5, the Department granted Continental1 exemption authority to provide United States-Moscow/St. Petersburg (Russia) scheduled service and one ofsix U.S.-Russia third-country codeshare opportunities, which Continentalintended to implement with Swiss via Zurich. The Department also gave each carrier authorized for U.S.-Russia third-country codeshare services "flexibility to alter its existing code-share arrangementby replacing its foreign carrierpartner with a different partner and/or intermediate point, within the parameters of [Annex V of] the [July 22,2008] 

### ad referendum [U.S.-Russia] agreement."2 Continentalplans to substitute bmi as its foreign codeshare partner and London as the intermediate point for its U.S.-Russia third-country codesharing

as soon as possible.

1 Common names are used for airlines.
2 Order 2008-11-5 at 2 

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Continental's planned U.S.-Russia third-country codesharingwithbmiis within the parameters ofthe ad referendum agreement,3 and the two carriers have the requisite economic authority to implement these codeshare services.4 Consistent with Continental and bmi's blanket codeshare authority, Continental provides notice that it intends to begin codesharing withbmi on the following route segment on or about October 1, 2010:

Route Segment Operating Carrier

London (LHR)-Moscow (DME) CO*onBD

Respectfully submitted, 

# of**~?3. ;Ju~O**  Lorraine B. Halloway

# ~**a-~'** Counselfor ContinentalAirlines, Inc.

cc: Dockets DOT-OST-2009-0174 and DOT-OST-2008-0283 Parties on the attached Service List Charles Donley, Steven Hatley, Esta Rosenberg, Mary Street, George Wellington IlCI\VDMS: 12il7:jfl51_1

3 See Order 2008-10-10 at 2,3 & n.12 (allowing United to substitute bmi

as its partnervia London for U.S.-Russia third-country codesharing).

4 Notice ofAction Takenin Dockets DOT-OST-2005-20122 and DOTOST-2009-0174, dated October 21, 2009.

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