### U.S. Departmentof Transportation Office ofthe Secretary ofTransportation



### DEPARTMENTACTION ON APPLICATION IN DOCKETDOT-OST-2015-0067 (filed

### March 26, 2015) 

### Application ofUzbekistan Airways (Uzbekistan) for a blanket statement ofauthorization under 14 CFR Part212 for an indefinite period to permitit to display the (BT*) designator code ofAirBaltic CorporationA/S (AirBaltic) on flights operated by Uzbekistan in scheduled foreign airtransportation ofpersons, property and mail between any pointorpoints in Uzbekistan, via any intermediatepoint orpoints, and any point orpoints in theUnited States. 1 

### Approved under assigned authority (14 CFR § 385.13).

Date ofAction: April 17, 2015

This action is subjectto the conditions attached. Persons entitledto petition the Department for review ofthis action under the Department's regulations, 14 CFR § 385.30, should file theirpetitions within seven days ofthe date ofthis action. This action is effective immediately, and the filing ofa petition for review will not alter its effectiveness.

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1Uzbekistan 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 ofauthorization 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 ifthe code-share agreement providing for the code-share operations is no longer effective or the carriers decide to cease operating any or all ofthe 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 expectthis notification to be received within I0 days ofsuch non-effectiveness or ofsuch 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 thatthe subject foreign airtransportation be sold in the name ofthe 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 ofthe code-share journeyfor all obligations established in its contract ofcarriage with the passenger; and thatthe passenger liability ofthe operating carrier be unaffected. (e) The authority granted here is specifically conditioned so that neither Uzbekistan nor AirBaltic shall give any force oreffect to any contractual provisions between themselves that are contrary to these conditions. (f) We may amend, modify, orrevoke the authority granted at any time without hearing at ourdiscretion.

1 Pursuant to the Notice In the Matter ofBlanket Notification ofCode-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 ofcode-share services involving service to non-open skies countries.