UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 

WASHINGTON, D.C. 

DEPARTMENT ACTION ON APPLICATION IN DOCKET DOT-OST-2014-0148 

filed August 27, 2014 

Application of Virgin America Inc. (Virgin America) for a blanket statement of authorization under 14 

CFR Part 212 to permit Virgin America to display the (CI*) designator code of China Airlines, Ltd. 

(China Airlines) on flights operated by Virgin America between any points in the United States, in 

conjunction with China Airlines' authorized foreign air transportation of persons, property, and mail 

between a point or points in Taiwan (either non-stop or via third country intermediate points), on the one 

hand, and a point or points in the United States, on the other hand. Virgin America also requests a 

waiver of the 45-day advance filing requirement under 14 CFR Part 212.1 

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

Date of Action: September 8, 2014 2 

\=" o \',Director, Office oflntematio 

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, at our discretion. 

*The authority granted is subject to the attached conditions. 

1 Virgin America has requested confidential treatment of portions of its un-redacted code-share agreement with China Airlines, under 

the provisions of 14 CFR§302.12. Good cause having been shown, we will grant this request. 2 The Department is acting on Virgin America's application prior to the expiration of the 7 -day answer period with consent of all 

parties served. 
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) Virgin America and China 

Airlines 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) Virgin America and/or China Airlines 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. We expect this notification to be 

received within 10 days of such non-effectiveness or of such decision. Such notices should be 

filed in docket DOT-OST-2014-0148. 

(c) Virgin America and/or China Airlines 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 and the date on which the service will begin. 

Such notice should be filed in Docket DOT-OST-2014-0148.3 

(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 the 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; and that the passenger liability of the operating carrier be unaffected. 

(e) The authority granted here is specifically conditioned so that neither Virgin America nor China 

Airlines shall give any force or effect to any contractual provisions between themselves. that are contrary 

to these conditions. 

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

discretion. 

3 Consistent with the Department's Notice in the Matter of Blanket Notification of Code-Share Service to Open-Skies Partners and 

Points, dated February 9, 2009, in its application Virgin America provides blanket notice of its intent to engage in code-share services 

with China Airlines on flights operated by Virgin America between any U.S. points. See Appendix C for a list of initial code-share 

points. 
Initial Code-Share Points 

Display of China AJrltnes' "Cl" Designator Code on Virgin America operated Oight:s: 

Routing: 

Promtro Los Angeles. Califunrla (LAX) 

Dallas Low Field, Texas (DAL) (effective no earlier than October 1:3, 2014) 

Newark. New Jersey (EWR) 

Fort Lauderdale, Florida (FLL) 

Washington. D.C. (IAD) 

New York, New York (JFK) 

Chicago, illinois (ORD) 

Seattle, Washington (SEA) 

From!fo S~n Francisco. California (SFO) 

Boston. Massachusetts (BOS) 

Dallas I.ow Field1 Texas (DAL) (effective ooearJiertfum October 13, 2014) 

Newark, New Jersey (EWR) 

Fort Laooerda1t; Florida (FLL) 

Washin~ D.C. (IAD) 

New York, New York (JFK) 

Las Vegas, Nevada (LAS) 

Los Angeles, California (LAX) 

Chicago, Illinois (ORD) 

Seattle. Washington (SEA) 

AppendixC