BEFORE THE 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

WASHINGTON, D.C. 

Application of 

UNITED PARCEL SERVICE CO. 

for Renewal of Exemption from 

49 u.s.c. § 41101 

(U.S. -Vietnam) 

Docket OST -2011-0141 

APPLICATION OF UNITED PARCEL SERVICE CO. 

FOR RENEWAL OF EXEMPTION FROM 49 U.S.C. § 41101 

Communications with respect to this document should be sent to: 

Dontai L. Smalls 

United Parcel Service Co. 

Public Affairs 

316 Pennsylvania Avenue, S.E. 

Washington, DC 20003 

dsmalls@ups.com 

Scott C. Casey 

United Parcel Service Co. 

1400 N. Hurstboume Parkway 

Louisville, KY 40223 

scasey@ups.com 

Dated: December 19, 2014 

Anita M. Mesner 

Jennifer M. Nowak 

HOLLAND & KNIGHT LLP 

800 171

h Street, N.W., Suite 1100 

Washington, D.C. 20006 

Phone: (202) 419-2604 

Fax: (202) 955-5564 

anita. mosner@hklaw. com 

Attorneys for UNITED PARCEL SERVICE 

co. 

NOTICE: ANY PERSON MAY FILE AN ANSWER TO THIS APPLICATION. 

ANSWERS MUST BE FILED IN THIS DOCKET AND SERVED UPON THE 

PERSONS LISTED ABOVE, ON OR BEFORE JANUARY 5, 2015. 
Application of 

BEFORE THE 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

WASHINGTON, D.C. 

UNITED PARCEL SERVICE CO. Docket OST-2011-0141 

for Renewal of Exemption from 

49 u.s.c. § 41101 

(U.S. -Vietnam) 

APPLICATION OF UNITED PARCEL SERVICE CO. 

FOR RENEWAL OF EXEMPTION FROM 49 U.S.C. § 41101 

United Parcel Service Co. ("UPS"), hereby applies pursuant to 49 U.S.C. § 

40109 for renewal of an exemption from 49 U.S.C. § 41101, authorizing UPS to provide 

foreign air transportation of property and mail between the United States and Vietnam 

and between Vietnam and any point or points, and to provide charter air transportation 

as authorized under the Air Transport Agreement between the United States and the 

Socialist Republic of Vietnam ("U.S.-Vietnam Agreement")1 and DOT's charter 

regulations. 

In support of this Application, UPS submits the following: 

1. By Notice of Action Taken dated April 30, 2013, the Department renewed 

UPS' exemption from 49 U.S.C. § 41101 which permits UPS to provide scheduled 

foreign air transportation of property and mail from a point or points in the United States 

1 Air Transport Agreement between the Government of the United States of America and the 

Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (December 4, 2003), as amended on May 18, 

2010 and December 13, 2012. 
UNITED PARCEL SERVICE CO. 

APPLICATION FOR RENEWAL OF EXEMPTION 

via intermediate points to a point or points in Vietnam and beyond2 through April 30, 

2015. 

2. UPS currently provides the service and has been providing the service 

since the original grant of the exemption. 3 The same factors which warranted the grant 

of the original exemption remain applicable and warrant the grant of this renewal. UPS 

holds various certificates of public convenience and necessity issued by the Department 

authorizing UPS to engage in domestic and foreign all-cargo air transportation.4 As 

such, DOT has determined on numerous occasions that UPS is fit, willing and able to 

provide the proposed service and to conform to the provisions of the Federal Aviation 

Act and the rules, regulations and requirements of the Department thereunder. 

3. UPS asks that the exemption authority continue for two years from the 

Department's final grant of authority requested herein, or as the Department determines 

to be appropriate. 

4. In accordance with Section 377.1 O(c) of the Department's rules, this 

renewal application is timely filed prior to the expiration date of the authority at issue. 

UPS intends to rely upon the Administrative Procedure Act, specifically, 5 U.S.C. 558(c), 

which provides that UPS's existing exemption shall not expire until the instant 

Application has been finally determined by the Department because the existing 

exemption authorizes "an activity of a continuing nature" within the meaning of that 

provision. 

2 UPS will continue to combine this authority with its other route authorizations and to serve 

multiple points on the authorized routings to the full extent permitted by the U.S.-Vietnam 

Agreement, which also authorizes all-cargo service between Vietnam and any third country. See 

Annex I. UPS will also continue operating charter international all-cargo air transportation under 

its Worldwide Charter Authority (Order 1988-9-44) and pursuant to 14 C.F.R. Part 212, as 

permitted by Annex II of the U.S.-Vietnam Agreement. 

See Notice of Action Taken (Jul. 29, 2011), Docket OST-2011-0141. 

4 See, e.g., Order No. 2002-7-31 (July 25, 2002), Order No. 2001-1-6 (January 10, 2001); Order 

No. 98-6-22 (June 25, 1998). 
UNITED PARCEL SERVICE CO. 

APPLICATION FOR RENEWAL OF EXEMPTION 

WHEREFORE, United Parcel Service Co. respectfully requests that the 

Department grant the requested exemption renewal and any different or additional relief 

that the Department may deem necessary. 

Anita M. Mesner 

Jennifer M. Nowak 

Holland & Knight LLP 

Attorneys for United Parcel Service Co. 
UNITED PARCEL SERVICE CO. 

APPLICATION FOR RENEWAL OF EXEMPTION 

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE 

I hereby certify that I have this date served the foregoing application on the persons 

identified below by causing a copy to be sent by electronic mail. 

robert. wirick@aa. com 

howard.kass@aa.com 

dan.weiss@united.com 

sascha.vanderbellen@delta.com 

sllunsford@fedex.com 

sharon. pasley@fedex.com 

john.s.duncan@faa.gov 

cristinasa@state. gov 

/ 

Jennifer M. Nowak 

December 19, 2014