BEFORE THE

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

WASHINGTON, D.C.

Agreements Adopted by the Traffic

Conferences of the International Air

Transport Association

OST‐2013‐XXXX  

APPLICATION FOR APPROVAL OF AGREEMENTS

BY THE

INTERNATIONAL AIR TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION

24 May 2013

Communications with respect to

this document should be sent to

Douglas Lavin  

Regional Vice President – North America  

International Air Transport Association

1201 F Street, NW, Suite 650  

Washington, DC 20004  

(202) 628‐9292
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Summary DOCKET: OST‐2013‐XXXX US DOT ORDER: pending

Date: 24 May 2013

Filing fee/IATA Acct: USD61/0000‐06

US/UST involved No

Intended effective date: 10 June 2013  

Implementation date: 17 June 2013

Agreements PTC COMP

Mail Vote 734 ‐ Resolution 024d  

Currency Names, Codes, Rounding Units and

Acceptability of

Currencies – South Africa

Intended Effective Date:  10 June 2013  

Implementation Date: 17 June 2013

(Memo PTC COMP 1713)
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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

24 May 2013

Date Served
International Air Transport Association 

Route de l’Aéroport 33 

PO Box 416 

CH - 1215 Geneva 15 Airport 

Switzerland 

Tel: +41 22 770 2836 

Fax +41 22 770 2896 

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

24 May 2013 

MEMORANDUM 

PTC COMP 1713 

TO: Members Participating in Tariff Coordinating Conferences 

FROM: Manager, Tariffs & Reservation Standards 

SUBJECT: PTC COMP 

Mail Vote 734 - Resolution 024d 

Currency Names, Codes, Rounding Units and Acceptability of 

Currencies – South Africa 

Intended Effective Date: 10 June 2013 

Implementation Date: 17 June 2013 

Mail Vote - Adoption 

As no negative votes were cast during the voting period which expired 1400 hours Geneva 

time 23 May 2013, Mail Vote 734 as circulated by MV734-1 dated 16 May 2013, is declared 

adopted. 

The filing period for this Mail Vote ends 31 May 2013. 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. 

Alban Sato 

Manager, Tariffs & Reservation Standards 

IDFS Passenger 
ADOPTED Res Doc: 1 

 Resolution: 024d 

Mv734 

CURRENCY NAMES, CODES, ROUNDING UNITS AND ACCEPTABILITY OF 

CURRENCIES 

PTC1 (Mail 734) 024d Amending 

PTC2 (Mail 734) 024d

PTC3 (Mail 734) 024d

PTC12 (Mail 734) 024d

PTC23 (Mail 734) 024d

PTC31 (Mail 734) 024d

PTC123 (Mail 734) 024d

Filing period Begins 24 May 2013 Intended Effectiveness 10 June 2013

 Ends 31 May 2013 Implementation Date 17 Jun 2013 

 Expiry Indefinite 

 Type A 

RESOLVED that, 

the decimal units for the South Africa Rand (ZAR), in Attachment A shall be amended as 

follows: 

ATTACHMENT 'A' 

 Rounding Units 

Country 

Name 

Currency Code 

Alpha Num 

Currency 

Name 

Acceptability Local Currency 

Fares and Related 

Charges 

Other 

Charges 

Decimal 

Units Notes 

South 

Africa 

ZAR 710 Rand 10 1 0 2 9