December 5 , 2013

Mr. Paul Gretch

Director

, Office of International Aviation

United States Department of Transportation

12 00 New Jersey Ave. , S. E

. Washington, D.C. 20590

Re: Exemption Authority of US Airways , Inc. ( United States

– Bahamas )

(D ated September 9 , 20 1 3 ) (Docket DOT

- OST

- 200 1

- 9766 )

Dear Mr. Gretch:

On September 9 , 201 3 , the Department of Tra nsportation (“Department”) issu ed

US Airways, Inc. (“ US Airways ”) exemption authority to provide “[ s ] cheduled foreign air

transportation of person s, property and mail between points in the United States and

points in the Bahama s .” ( See Notice of Action Taken, Docket DOT

- OST

- 200 1

- 9766

(“Notice”).) In a footnote, the Notice stated that US Airways previously served the

Bahamas both with its own aircra ft and pursuant to a codeshare arrangement with

Bahamasair Holdings Limited (“Bahamasair”); but US Airways had subsequently

terminated its relationship with Bahamasair.

US Airways hereb y advises the Department that , in addition to continuing to

serve the Bahamas using its own aircraft, it intends to provide service between the

United States and the Bahamas pursuant to a codeshare arrangement with American

Airlines, Inc. (“AA”), whereby US Airways places its “US” designator code on flights

operated by A A. US Airways plans to commence service following the closing of the

merger of US Airways Group, Inc. with AMR Corp. , at which point US Airways and AA

will be owned by the same corporate parent.

Respectfully submitted,

Howard Kass

Vice Pre sident

, Legal and Government Affairs

Benjamin T. Slocum

Director , Legal and Government Affairs

Attachment

cc: Service ListCERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I certify that, on December 5 , 2013 , I caused to be served a copy of the foregoing

Letter by email upon t hose addressees listed below:

urskr@state.gov (Department of State)

esta.rosenberg@dot.gov (Department of Transportation)

brian.hedberg@dot.gov (Department of Transportation)

todd.homan@dot.gov (Department of Transportation)

peter.irvine@dot.gov (Dep artment of Transportation)

laura.remo@dot.gov (Department of Transportation)

brett.kruger@dot.gov (Department of Transportation)

john.allen@faa.gov (Federal Aviation Administration)

dan.weiss@united.com (United)

steve.morrissey@united.com (United)

kar ine.faden@united.com (United)

gmurphy@crowell.com (Counsel for United)

francis.heil@aa.com (American)

robert.wirick@aa.com (American)

sascha.vanderbellen@delta.com (Delta)

jhill@dowlohnes.com (Counsel for JetBlue and Hawaiian)

perkmann@dowlohnes.com (Counsel for JetBlue and Hawaiian)

robert.land@jetblue.com (JetBlue)

msinick@ssd.com (Counsel for Alaska)

jyoung@yklaw.com (Counsel for Spirit)

dkirstein@yklaw.com (Counsel for Spirit)

bob.kneisley@wnco.com (Southwest)

leslie.abbott@wnco.com (Southwe st)

ethan.blank@rjet.com (Republic)

robert.cohn@hoganlovells.com (Counsel for Republic)

patrick.rizzi@hoganlovells.com (Counsel for Republic)

john.fredericksen@suncountry.com (Sun Country)

thomas.ting@suncountry.com (Sun Country)

rpommer@atlasair.com (Atlas)

anita.mosner@hklaw.com (Counsel for UPS)

jennifer.nowak@ hklaw.com (Counsel for UPS)

cefelts@fedex.com (FedEx)

nssparks@fedex.com (FedEx)

kevin.montgomery@polaraircargo.com (Polar)

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Benj amin T. Slocum