U.S. Department of 

Transportation 

Office of the Secretary 

of Transportation 

DEPARTMENT ACTION ON APPLICATION IN DOCKET OST -2015-0021 

filed February 6, 2015 

Joint application of JetBlue Airways Corporation (JetBlue) and Icelandair ehf. (Icelandair) 

for blanket statements of authorization (1) to permit Icelandair to display JetBlue's B6* 

designator code on flights operated by Icelandair between any point or points in the United 

States and any point or points in Iceland (either nonstop or via intermediate points) and 

beyond to any point or points in any third country; and (2) to permit JetBlue to display 

Icelandair's Fl* designator code on flights operated by JetBlue between Icelandair's U.S. 

gateways and any point or points in the United States in conjunction with foreign air 

transportation of passengers held out by Icelandair. 

Approved under assigned authority (14 CFR § 385.13). 

Date of Action: April 7, 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://dms.dot.gov/lreports/reports aviation.asp 
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) JetBlue and Icelandair 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) JetBlue and/or Icelandair 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 Docket OST -2015-0021. 

(c) JetBlue and/or Icelandair 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 services will begin. Such notices shall be filed in Docket OST-2015-0021. 

(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; that the passenger 

liability of the operating carrier be unaffected; and that the operating carrier shall not permit the code of its 

U.S. code-sharing partner to be carried on any flight that enters, departs, or transits the airspace of any area 

for whose airspace the Federal Aviation Administration has issued a flight prohibition. 

(e) The authority to operate to third countries is subject to the condition that any service provided under the 

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

the foreign countries involved. Furthermore, (i) nothing in the award of this blanket statement of 

authorization should be construed as conferring upon JetBlue rights (including codeshare, fifth freedom 

intermediate and/or beyond rights) to serve markets where U.S. carrier entry is limited unless JetBlue notifies 

the Department of their 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 ofJetBlue by virtue of the blanket statement of authorization granted here, but that are not 

then being used by JetBlue, the holding of such authority will not be considered as providing any preference 

for JetB.lue in a competitive carrier selection proceeding to determine which carrier(s) should be entitled to 

use the authority at issue.3 

(f) The authority granted here is specifically conditioned so that neither JetBlue nor Icelandair shall give any force 

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

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

1 We expect this notification to be received within I 0 days of such non-effectiveness or of such decision. 2 The Joint Applicants state in their application that 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, they provide blanket 

notice of their intent to engage in codeshare services between open skies points. In addition, they provide notice of their 

proposed initial code-share markets. They further state that they agree to notify the Department no later than 30 days 

before commencing any code-share services to non-open skies points. 3 The notice in paragraph (c) above can be used for this notification.