UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY WASHINGTON, D.C.



### DEPARTMENT ACTION ON APPLICATION IN DOCKET DOT

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filed Marc h 27, 2012

Application of Joint Stock Company Aircompany “Yakutia” (Yakutia) for a statement of authorization to permit Yakutia to display the designator code of Joint Stock Company Vladivostok Air (Vladivostok Air) on seasonal Yakutia flights between Petropavlovsk

- Kamchatsky, Russian Federation, and Anchorage, Alaska.

*Approved under assigned authority (14 C.F.R. § 385.13)

Date of Action: May 17 , 20 1 2

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.

We may amend, modify, or revoke the authority granted at any time, without hearing, a t our discretion.

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### The authority granted is subject to the attached conditions.

An electronic version of this document is available on the World Wide Web at http://www.regulations.gov

### ATTACHMENT A

The statement of authorization is subject to the following conditions:

(a) The statement of authorization will remain in effect only as long as (i) Yakutia and Vladivostok Air 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 ) Yakutia and/or Vladivostok Air must notify the Department immediately if the code

- share agreement under which

these code

- share services are operated is no longer in effect or if the carriers decide to cease operating all or a portion of the approved code

- share services. Such notices should be filed in Docket DOT

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( c ) The code

- sharing operations conduct ed under this authority must comply with 14 CFR Part 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 ca rrier shown on the ticket) accept responsibility for the entirety of the code share journey for all obligations established in its contract of carriage with th e passenger; and that the passenger liability of the operating carrier be unaffected;

( d ) The authority granted here is specifically conditioned so that neither Yakutia nor Vladivostok Air 

### shall give any force or effect to any contractual provisions between themselves that are contrary to these conditions ; and

( e ) We may amend, modify, or revoke t he authority granted at any time without hearing at our discretion.

1 We expect this notification to be received within 10 days of such non

- effectiveness or of such decision.