U.S. Department of 

Transportation 

Office of the Secretary 

of Transportation 

DEPARTMENT ACTION ON APPLICATION IN DOCKET DOT-OST-2014-0075 

(Filed May 16, 2014) 

Republic Airline Inc. d/b/a United Express (Republic) applies for blanket statements of authorization to 

display the designator codes of All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd. (ANA) (NH*), Austrian Airways AG 

(Austrian) (OS*), Brussels Airlines NV/SA (Brussels) (SN*), Deutsche Lufthansa AG (Lufthansa) (LH*), 

South African Airways SOC Limited (South African) (SA*), and Transportes Aereos Portugueses S.A 

(TAP) (TP*) (together, the "Joint Applicants") on flights it operates as United Express between points in 

the United States and between U.S. points and points in third countries. 

*Approved under assigned authority (14 CPR §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 CPR §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. 

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 :I /www. regulations .gov 
The codeshare operations authorized here are subject to the following conditions: 

(a) The blanket statements of authorization will remain in effect only as long as (i) Republic, ANA, Austrian, 

Brussels, Lufthansa, South African, and TAP, as appropriate, continue to hold the necessary underlying 

authority to operate the code-share services at issue, and (ii) the code-share agreement providing for the codeshare operations remains in effect; 

(b) Republic, ANA, Austrian, Brussels, Lufthansa, South African, and/or TAP 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, which carrier will be operating the aircraft in the codeshare market added, and the date on which the service will begin.1 Such notices should be filed in Docket DOTOST-2014-0075; 

(c) Republic, ANA, Austrian, Brussels, Lufthansa, South African, and/or TAP, as appropriate, must notify 

the Department immediately if the code-share agreement under which these code-share services are operated is 

no longer in effect 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 DOT-OST-2014-0075; 2 

(d) The code-sharing operations conducted under this authority must comply with 14 CPR Part 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 to operate to third countries is subject to the condition that any service provided under the 

statements of authorization shall be consistent with all applicable agreements between the United States and the 

foreign countries involved. Furthermore, (i) nothing in the award ofthese l?lanket statements of authorization 

should be construed as conferring upon Republic rights (including code-share, fifth freedom intermediate and/or 

beyond rights) to serve markets where U.S. carrier entry is limited unless Republic notifies the Department of 

its intent to serve such a market and unless and until the Department has completed any necessary carrier 

selection procedures to determine which carrier(s) should be authorized to exercise such rights; and (ii) should 

there be a request by any carrier to use the limited-entry route rights that are included in the authority of 

Republic by virtue of the blanket statement of authorization granted here, but that are not then being used by 

Republic, the holding of such authority will not be considered as providing any preference for Republic in a 

competitive carrier selection proceeding to determine which carrier(s) should be entitled to use the authority at • 3 

ISSUe; 

(f) The authority granted here is specifically conditioned so that neither Republic, ANA, Austrian, Brussels, 

Lufthansa, South African, nor TAP shall give any force or effect to any contractual provisions between 

themselves that are contrary to these conditions; and. 

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

1 Pursuant to the Department's Notice In the Matter of Blanket Notification of Code-Share Service to Open Skies Partners 

and Points dated February 9, 2009, Republic, ANA, Austrian, Brussels, Lufthansa, and TAP, have provided notification of 

their intent to engage in code-share services on flights operated by Republic between all U.S. points and between U.S. 

points and points in any open-skies country. Republic and South African Airways also give notice of codesharing between 

South African's U.S. gateways,, on the one hand, and points in the U.S. that are currently designated for codeshare services 

under the U.S.-South Africa Air Transport Agreement, on the other hand. See Appendix A. Republic and the Joint 

Applicants will provide the Department with 30-day notice for codeshare services to and from non-open-skies countries or 

of any plan to introduce codeshare services with South African Airways in other city pairs not listed in Appendix A. 2 We expect this notification to be received within I 0 days of such non-effectiveness or of such decision. 3 The notice in paragraph (b) above can be used for this notification. 
APPENDIX A 

Renublic d/bla United Express-South Afrjcan Ajnvays Codeshare Pojnts 

U.S. GATEWAYS U.S. POINTS 

Chicago Atlanta 

Los Angeles Baltimore 

Miami Boston 

New York Cincinnati 

Philadelphia Cleveland 

Washington, DC Dallas/Ft. Worth 

Denver 

Detroit 

Ft. Lauderdale 

Houston 

Las Vegas 

Minneapolis/St. Paul 

New Orleans 

Orlando 

Phoenix 

Pittsburgh 

Portland 

Raleigh/Durham 

Salt Lake City 

San Diego 

San Francisco 

Seattle 

St. Louis 

Tampa 

West Palm Beach