December 5 , 2013

Mr. Paul Gretch

Director

, Office of International Aviation

United States Department of Transportation

12 00 New Jersey Ave. , S. E

. Washington, D.C. 20590

Re: Exemption Authority of US Airways , Inc. ( United States

– China )

(D ated M ay 3, 2010 ) (Docket DOT

- OST

- 200 8

- 0139 )

Dear Mr. Gretch:

On May 3 , 201 0 , the Department of Tra nsportation (“Department”) issu ed US

Airways, Inc. (“ US Airways ”) exemption authority to provide “[ s ] cheduled foreign air

transportation of persons, property a nd mail between a point or points in the United

States and a point or points in the People’s Republic of China, and beyond... pursuant

to code

- share arrangements with other U.S. and Chinese air carriers .” ( See Notice of

Action Taken, Docket DOT

- OST

- 200 8

- 0139 (“Notice”).) 1 In a footnote, the Notice

stated that US Airways would provide this service pursuant to a codeshare arrangement

with United Air Lines, Inc. and/or Air China Limited

. US Airways timely applied for

renewal of this exemption authority on Marc h 5, 2012.

US Airways hereb y advises the Department that it intends to provide service

between the United States and the People’s Republic of China , pursuant to a codeshare

arrangement with American Airlines, Inc. (“AA”), whereby US Airways places it s “US”

designator code on flights operated by AA. US Airways plans to commence service

following the closing of the merger of US Airways Group, Inc. with AMR Corp. , at which

point US Airways and AA will be owned by the same corporate parent.

Respe ctfully submitted,

Howard Kass

Vice President

, Legal and Government Affairs

Benjamin T. Slocum

Director , Legal and Government Affairs

Attachment

cc: Service List

1 For administrative convenience, the Department consolidated the exemption authority granted in Docket

DOT

- OST

- 2006

- 25967 into Docket DOT

- OST

- 2008

- 0139.CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I certify that, on December 5 , 2013 , I caused to be served a copy of the foregoing

Letter by email upon those addressees listed below:

urskr@state.gov (Department of State)

esta.rosenberg@dot.gov (Department of Transportation)

brian.hedberg@dot.gov (Department of Transportation)

todd.homan@dot.gov (Departmen t of Transportation)

peter.irvine@dot.gov (Department of Transportation)

laura.remo@dot.gov (Department of Transportation)

brett.kruger@dot.gov (Department of Transportation)

john.allen@faa.gov (Federal Aviation Administration)

dan.weiss@united.com (U nited)

steve.morrissey@united.com (United)

karine.faden@united.com (United)

gmurphy@crowell.com (Counsel for United)

francis.heil@aa.com (American)

robert.wirick@aa.com (American)

sascha.vanderbellen@delta.com (Delta)

jhill@dowlohnes.com (Counsel fo r JetBlue and Hawaiian)

perkmann@dowlohnes.com (Counsel for JetBlue and Hawaiian)

robert.land@jetblue.com (JetBlue)

msinick@ssd.com (Counsel for Alaska)

jyoung@yklaw.com (Counsel for Spirit)

dkirstein@yklaw.com (Counsel for Spirit)

bob.kneisley@wnco.co m (Southwest)

leslie.abbott@wnco.com (Southwest)

ethan.blank@rjet.com (Republic)

robert.cohn@hoganlovells.com (Counsel for Republic)

patrick.rizzi@hoganlovells.com (Counsel for Republic)

john.fredericksen@suncountry.com (Sun Country)

thomas.ting@sunc ountry.com (Sun Country)

rpommer@atlasair.com (Atlas)

anita.mosner@hklaw.com (Counsel for UPS)

jennifer.nowak@ hklaw.com (Counsel for UPS)

cefelts@fedex.com (FedEx)

nssparks@fedex.com (FedEx)

kevin.montgomery@polaraircargo.com (Polar)

_________________________

Benjamin T. Slocum