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VIA ELECTRONIC MAIL 

Paul L. Gretch 

Director 

Office of International Aviation 

Department of Transportation 

Room W86--316 

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Washington, DC 20590 

July 22, 2010 

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018272.0000222.58.q.ii 

Re: Substitution of U.S.-Russia Third-Country Codeshare Partner/ 

Intermediate Point and Codeshare Notice of Continental 

(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 of six U.S.-Russia third-country codeshare opportunities, which 

Continental intended 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 arrangement by replacing its foreign 

carrier partner 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 Continental plans 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 & n.6. 

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Continental's planned U.S.-Russia third-country codesharing with bmi is 

within the parameters of the 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 with bmi 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-~' Counsel for 

Continental Airlines, 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 partner via London for U.S.-Russia third-country codesharing). 

4 Notice of Action Taken in Dockets DOT-OST-2005-20122 and DOTOST-2009-0174, dated October 21, 2009. 

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