U.S. Department of

Transportation

Office of the Secretary

of Transportation

DEPARTMENT ACTION ON APPLICATION IN DOCKET DOT-OST-2011-0166

(filed August 30, 2011)

Application of Aerovias del Continente Americano S.A. (Avianca) for a blanket 

statement of authorization to permit Avianca to display the TA* designator code of 

Trans American Airlines, S.A. d/b/a TACA Peŕu (TACA Peŕu) on flights operated 

by Avianca between a point or points in Colombia and a point or points in the 

United States.1 2 Avianca also requests a waiver of the 45-day advance filing 

requirements under 14 CFR Part 212.3

Approved under assigned authority (14 CFR § 385.13)

Date of Action: September 22, 2011

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Director, Office of International Aviation

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://www.regulations.gov

 1 Avianca states that TACA Peŕu will not hold out local Colombia-U.S. services. 2 The initial code-share points are attached as Appendix A. 3 The Department is acting on Avianca’s request prior to the expiration of the 45-day advance filing 

requirement with the consent of all parties served.
Docket DOT-OST-2010-0166

Application of Aerovias del Continente Americano S.A. (Avianca) for a blanket statement 

of authorization to permit Avianca to display the TA* designator code of Trans American 

Airlines, S.A. d/b/a TACA Peŕu (TACA Peŕu) on flights operated by Avianca between a 

point or points in Colombia and a point or points in the United States. 

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) Avianca and TACA 

Peŕu 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) Avianca and/or TACA Peŕu 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 the approved code-share services. Such notice should be filed in Docket 

DOT-OST-2011-0166.

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(c) Avianca and/or TACA Peŕu 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. Such 

notices shall be filed in Docket DOT-OST-2011-0166.

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 the 

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 Avianca nor TACA 

Peŕu 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.

 4 We expect this notification to be received within 10 days of such non-effectiveness or of such decision.
Appendix A

Initial Code-share Points

TACA Peŕu’s TA* designator code will be displayed on flights operated by Avianca in the 

following markets:

Fort Lauderdale – Bogotá

Miami – Bogotá

 Cali

 Medellin

New York – Bogotá

 Medellin

Washington, D.C. – Bogotá