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### August 20, 2013

Robert Finamore

Chief, Foreign Air Carrier Licensing Division

U.S. Department of Transportation

1200 New Jersey Avenue, S.W.

Washington, D.C. 20590

Re: Common Code Approval, Avianca and the TACA Group

(Docket OST

- 2012

- 0136)

Dear Mr. Finamore:

On August 15, 2013, Avianca and the TACA Group 1



### The Joint Applicants have completed polling and no carrier has o bjected to the grant of

the Joint Applicants’ request

. We respectfully request that the Department proceed to grant the

Joint Applicants’ requested extension of time as soon as possible. (collectively, the “Joint

Applicants”) submitted a request in the above

- captioned docket to extend through March 31,

2014 the use of the TACA trade name and “TA” code for th e TACA Group carriers pending

resolution of certain technological issues in conn ection with the Joint Applicant s ’ transition to a

single Avianca brand and their shared usage of the “AV” code.

Respectfully submitted

,

Richard D. Mathias

David M. Endersbee

J onathon H. Foglia

Counsel for Avianca and the TACA Group

cc: service list

1 

### Aerovias Del Continente Americano S.A. Avianca and TACA International Airlines, S.A.,

Trans American Airlines, S.A. d/b/a TACA, Lineas Aereas Costarricenses S.A., and Aviateca

S.A., respectively.CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I hereby certify that on this 20 t h day of August 2013 , a copy of the foregoing was served by email on the

parties named below:

Lorraine B. Halloway

Gerald F. Murphy

Couns el for Continental/United Airlines

Crowell & Moring LLP

1 001 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20004

- 2595

l halloway@crowell.com

gmurphy@crowell.com

Dan Weiss

Managing Director

– International &

Regulatory Affairs

United Air Lines

77 West Wacker Drive

- HDQIZ

Chicago, IL 60601

d an.weiss@united.co m

Stephen J. Morrissey

Managing Director, Regulatory and

Policy

United Air Lines, Inc.

1 225 New York Avenue, NW

- DCAIZ

Suite 1100

Washington, DC 20005

s teve.morrissey@united.com

Alexander Van Der Bellen

Sametta C. Barnett

Delta Air Lines

1212 Ne w York Avenue, NW

Suite 200

Washington, D.C. 20005

s ascha.vanderbellen@delta.com

Sametta.c.barnett @delta.com

Robert Wirick

American Airlines, Inc.

1101 Sev enteenth Street, N.W.

Suite 600

Washington, D.C. 20036

r obert.wirick@aa.com John L. Richardson

Joan Canny

Counsel for Amerijet International

John L. Richardson, P.L.L.C.

555 13 th Street, N.W.

Suite 420 West

Washington, D.C. 20004

jrichardson@johnlrichardson.com

j Canny@amerijet.com

Kelli Bryan

Ranjit Seth

Robert Foster

Charter Sales

Evergreen International Airlines, Inc.

3850 Three Mile Lane

McMinnville, OR 97128

charters@evergreenairlines.co m

r anjit.seth@evergreenairlines.com

chris.schuldt@evergreenhelicopters.com

Robert.foster@evergreenairlines.com

Malcolm L. Benge

Counsel for World Airways

Zuckert, Scoutt & Rasenberger LLP

888 17 th Street, N,W.

Suite 700

Washington, DC 20006

mlbenge@zsr law.com

Sandra L. Lunsford

Courtney Felts

Legal and Regulatory Affairs

Federal Express Corporation

3620 Hacks Cross Road

Building B, 3 rd Floor

Memphis, TN 38125

sllunsford @fedex.com

cefelts@fedex.com

### 2 T imothy Erickson

Safety and Regulatory Affairs

Air Transport International LLC

2800 Cantrell Road

Little Rock, AR 72202

Timothy.erickson @airtransport.cc

Howard Kass

Managing Director & Associate General

Counsel

US Airways

1401 H Street, N.W.

, Suite 1075

Washington, D.C. 20006

Howard. kass@usairways.com

John M. Allen

Director

Flight Standards Service

Federal Aviation Administration

800 Independence Avenue, S.W.

Room 821

Washington, D.C. 20591

john.allen @faa.gov

Aaron Goerlich

Counsel for Allegiant A ir, Ryan

International Airlines and Southern Air

Garofalo Goerlich Hainbach PC

1200 New Hampshire Avenue NW

Suite 800

Washington, D.C. 20036

- 6802

agoerlich @ggh

- airlaw.com

Robert P. Silverberg

Jeffrey J ohnson

Counsel for ABX Air

Silverberg, Goldman & Bikoff, L.L.P.

1101 30th Street, N.W.

Suite 120

Washington, D.C. 20007

rsilverberg@sgbdc.com

jjohnson@ sgbdc.com

Marshall S. Sinick

Counsel for Alaska Airlines a nd Florida

West International Airways

Squire, Sanders & Dempsey

1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.

Suite 500

Washington, D.C. 20004

msinick@ssd.com Russell E. Pommer

Associate General Counsel and

Director of Reg ulatory Affairs

Atlas Air, Inc.

1747 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.

Suite 875

Washington, D.C 20006

rpommer@atlasair.com

Mark W. Atwood

Counsel for Kalitta Air and Xtra Airways

Cozen O’Connor

Army Navy Building

1627 I Street, NW

Suite 1100

Washington, D.C. 20006

matwood@cozen.com

ldunn@xtraairways.com

Jonathan B. Hill

Counsel for Hawaiian Airlines and JetBlue

Dow Lohnes

1200 New Hampshire Avenue, N.W.

Suite 800

Washington, DC 20036

- 6802

jhill@dowlohnes .com

Thomas Ting

MN Airlines, LLC dba Sun Country

Airlines

1300 Mendota Heights Road

Mendota Heights, MN 55120

Thomas.Ting @suncountry.com

Joanne W. Young

Counsel for Spirit Airlines

Kirstein & Young PLLC

1001 Pennsy lvania Ave., N.W.

Suite 600 South

Washington, DC 20004

jyoung@yklaw.com

John R. Mietus, Jr.

Counsel for Centurion Air Cargo and Trade

Winds Airlines

Law Office of John Mietus, LLC

6701 Democracy Boulevard

Suite 300

Bethesda, MD 20817

john@mietuslaw.com

### 3 Kevin Montgomery

Peter Beckett

Polar Air Cargo, Inc.

1747 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.

Suite 875

Washington, D.C 20006

kevin.montgomery@ polaraircargo.com

peter.beckett@aawholdings .com