U.S. Department of 

Transportation 

Office of the Secretary 

of Transportation 

DEPARTMENT ACTION ON APPLICATION IN DOCKET DOT-OST-2015-0030 

(Filed February 18, 2015) 

Application of Jin Air Company, Limited (Jin Air) for a blanket statement of authorization under 14 

CFR Part 212 to permit Jin Air to display the ("KE") designator code of Korean Air Lines Co., Ltd. 

(Korean Air) on flights operated by Jin Air in conjunction with foreign air transportation of persons, 

property, and mail between a point or points in the Republic of Korea and the United States.1 

The applicant also requests a waiver of the 45-day advance filing requirement under 14 CFR Part 212. 

* Approved under assigned authority ( 14 CFR §385. 13). 

This action is subject to the conditions attached. Persons entitled to petition the Department for review of this 

action under the Department's regulations, 14 CFR §385.30, should file their petitions within seven days of the 

date ofthis action. This action is effective immediately, and the filing of a petition for rev iew will not a lter its 

e ffectiveness. 

We may amend, modifY, or revoke the authority granted at any time without hearing at our discretion. 

An electronic version of this document is available on the World Wide Web at 

http://www.regulations.gov 

1 Jin Air states that the carriers plan to begin code-share service in the Seoul-Guam market on or about March 29, 20 15. 
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The statement of authorization granted is subject to the following conditions: 

(a) The statement of authorization will remain in effect only as long as (i) Jin Air and Korean Air continue to 

hold the necessary underlying authority to operate the code-share services at issue, and (ii) the code-share 

agreement providing for the code-share operations remains in effect. 

(b) Jin Air and Korean Air must promptly notify the Department (Office of International Aviation) if the codeshare agreement providing for the code-share operations is no longer effective or if the carriers decide to 

cease operating all or a portion of the approved code-share services. Such notices should be filed in Docket 

OST -2015-0030 .

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(c) Jin Air and/or Korean Air must notify the Department no later than 30 days before they begin any new codeshare service under the code-share services authorized here. Such notice sha ll identify the market(s) to be 

served and the date on which the service will begin. Such notices should be filed in Docket OST-2015-0030. 

(d) The code-sharing operations conducted under this authority must comply with 14 CFR 257 and with any 

amendments to the Department's regulations concerning code-share arrangements that may be adopted. 

Notwithstanding any provisions in the contract between the carriers, our approval here is expressly 

conditioned upon the requirements that the subj ect fore ign air transportation be sold in the name of the carrier 

holding out such service in the computer reservation systems and e lsewhere; that the carrier selling such 

transportation (i.e. , the carrier shown on the ticket) accept responsibility for the entirety of the code-share 

journey for all obligations established in its contract of carriage with the passenger; and that the passenger 

liability of the operating carrier be unaffected. 

(f) The authority granted here is specifically conditioned so that ne ither Jin Air nor Korean Air sha ll give any 

force or effect to any contractual provisions between themselves that are contrary to these conditions. 

(g) We may amend, modify, or revoke the authority granted at any time without hearing at our d iscretion. 

2 We expect this notification to be received with in I 0 days of such non-effectiveness or of such decision.