December 5, 2013

Mr. Paul Gretch

Director, Office of International Aviation

United States Department of Transportation

1200 New Jersey Ave., S.E.

Washington, D.C. 20590

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

(Dated May 3, 2010) (Docket DOT-OST-2008-0139)

Dear Mr. Gretch:

On May 3, 2010, the Department of Transportation (“Department”) issued US 

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

transportation of persons, property and 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-2008-0139 (“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 March 5, 2012. 

US Airways hereby 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 its “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. 

Respectfully 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 (Department 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 (United)

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 for 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.com (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@suncountry.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)

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Benjamin T. Slocum