U.S. Department of 

Transportation 

Office of the Secretary 

of Transportation 

DEPARTMENT ACTION ON APPLICATION IN 

DOCKET DOT -OST -2015-0067 

(filed March 26, 2015) 

Application of Uzbekistan Airways (Uzbekistan) for a blanket statement of authorization 

under 14 CFR Part 212 for an indefinite period to permit it to display the (BT*) designator 

code of Air Baltic Corporation A/S (AirBaltic) on flights operated by Uzbekistan in scheduled 

foreign air transportation of persons, property and mail between any point or points in 

Uzbekistan, via any intermediate point or points, and any point or points in the United 

States.1 

Approved under assigned authority (14 CFR § 385.13). 

Date of Action: April 17, 2015 

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 of this action. This action is effective 

immediately, and the filing of a petition for review will not alter its effectiveness. 

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

http:/ I /www .regulations.gov 

1 Uzbekistan states that it plans to initially display AirBaltic's designator code on the Riga-New York (JFK) segment of 

Uzbekistan's Tashkent-Riga-New York (JFK) service. 
The code-share operations authorized here are subject to the following conditions: 

(a) The statement of authorization will remain in effect only as long as (i) Uzbekistan and AirBaltic 

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) Uzbekistan and/or AirBaltic must promptly notify the Department if the code-share agreement providing 

for the code-share operations is no longer effective or the carriers decide to cease operating any or all of the 

approved code-share services. Such notice should be filed in Dockets DOT-OST-2015-0067. 

(c) Uzbekistan and/or AirBaltic must notify the Department no later than 30 days before they begin any new 

code-share service under the code-share services authorized here. Such notice shall identify the market(s) to 

be served and the date on which the services will begin. 1 We expect this notification to be received within I 0 

days of such non-effectiveness or of such decision. Such notices shall be filed in Docket DOT-OST-2015-

0067. 

(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 subject foreign air transportation be sold in the name of the 

carrier holding out such service in computer reservation systems and elsewhere; 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. 

(e) The authority granted here is specifically conditioned so that neither Uzbekistan nor AirBaltic shall give any 

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

(f) We may amend, modify, or revoke the authority granted at any time without hearing at our discretion. 

1 Pursuant to the Notice In the Matter of Blanket Notification of Code-Share Service to Open-Skies Partners and Points, 

dated February 9, 2009, Uzbekistan provided a blanket 30-day notice for the open skies code-sharing described in its 

application. Uzbekistan states that it will continue to provide 30-day notice to the Department of code-share services 

involving service to non-open skies countries.