BEFORE THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

WASHINGTON, D.C.

_________________________________________ ) Application of ) ) VOLGA

- DNEPR AIRLINE S LLC ) ) Docket OST

- 201 5

- for an emergency exemption pursuant to ) 49 U.S.C . § 40109(g) ) ) ) (2) x Columbus , OH

– Seattle , WA )

_________________________________________ )

APPLICATION OF VOLGA
- DNEPR AIRLINE S LLC
FOR AN EMERGENCY EXEMPTION Communication with respect to this document should be add ressed to: Alexey I. Isaikin Artem Tarasenko Chairman Operations Manager Volga

- Dnepr Airlines LLC Volga Dnepr

- Unique Air Cargo, Inc. 14 Karbysheva Street 9400 Grogan’s Mill Road, Ulyanovsk 432072 Town Center Plaza, Suite 220, Russia The Woodlands, TX 77381, USA (832) 585

- 8611

DATED: March 4 , 201 5

NOTICE: THIS APPLICATION IS FILED PURSUANT TO THE EMERGENCY EXEMPTION PROCEDURES OF 14 C.F.R. § 302.410, WHICH AUTHORIZE THE DEPARTMENT TO ACT ON EMERGENCY EXEMPTION S IMMEDIATELY. ANY PERSON INTERESTED IN FILING AN ANSWER IS REQUESTED TO DO SO IN THE ABOVE DOCKET IMMEDIATELY. COPIES OF THE SUBMISSION SHOULD BE SERVED ON THE PERSONS LISTED ABOVE AND ON THE ATTACHED SERVICE LIST.BEFORE THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTA TION

WASHINGTON, D.C.

_________________________________________ ) Application of ) ) VOLGA

- DNEPR AIRLINES LLC ) ) Docket OST

- 201 5

- for an emergency exemption pursuant to ) 49 U.S.C. § 40109(g) ) ) ) (2) x Columbus, OH

– Seattle, WA )

_________________________________________ )

APPLICATION OF VOLGA
- DNEPR AIRLINE S LLC FOR AN EMERGENCY EXEMPTION

Volga

- Dnepr Airline s LLC (“Volga

- Dnepr Airlines” or "Volga

- Dnepr") respectfully requests an emergency exemption from the provisions of 49 U.S.C. §§ 40109(g) and 41703(c), and otherwise applicable provisions of the Department of Transportation (“DOT”) regulations, so as to permit Volga

- Dnepr to operate two ( 2 ) one
- way cargo charter flight s , utilizi ng Volga

D nepr’s AN

- 124

- 100 aircraft to transport cargo from Columbus , Ohio, to Seattle , Washington , on around March 10

– 15 , 201 5 , on behalf of GE Aviation

. The outsize d cargo to be transported by Volga

- Dnepr consist s of twelve ( 12 ) GEnx aircraft engines an d associated equipment ; each engine on its shipping stand measures approximately L

- 210 " x W

- 142 " x H

- 149 " , weighing approx. 19 , 95 0 pounds ; each flight will carry six (6) engines. As described, the payload is outsized and cannot be accommodated by
domestic commercial carrier aircraft. In support of its application, Volga

- Dnepr states as follows:1. Volga

- Dnepr is a foreign air carrier holding appropriate DOT authority to conduct all

cargo charter foreign air transportation between a point or points in Russia and a point or points in the United States, and all

- cargo charter transportation between the United Sates and third
countries pursuant to 14 C.F.R. Part 212. 2. Volga

- Dnepr will operate the flight s on behalf of GE Aviation as part of an effort to provide urgently needed lift to leave Columbus not later than the set dates

. GE’s customer Boeing urgently requires those engines to meet its deadlines and not to delay B 7 87 production
line , while only the use of Volga

- Dnepr's outsized aircraft can make it possibl e to perform the services in question within the set schedule.
3. Due to the size of the cargo and the urgency of the shipment , GE Aviation cannot use surface transportation to ship the cargo . An evaluation conducted by GE Aviation eliminated all
other con ventional movement methods including over the road trucking and rail transportation as
viable methods to meet current needs

. 4. Given the tight schedules associated with the manufacturing of B 7 8 7 aircraft , Volga

Dnepr must perform the operations not later than within the set dates. Volga

- Dnepr is polling all U.S. certificated air carriers on the attached service list and will inform the Department of the results of that poll. 5. Under 49 U.S.C. § 40109(g), the Department may authorize a foreign air carrier to transport commercial traffic between U.S. points under limited circumstances. Specifically, the Department must find that the authority is required in the public interest; that because of an emergency created by unusual circumstances not arising in the normal course of business the traffic cannot be accommodated by U.S. carriers holding certificates under 49 U.S.C. § 41102; that all possible efforts have been made to accommodate the traffic on U.S. certificated air carriers; and that the exemption is ne cessary to avoid unreasonable hardship for the traffic. This application is consistent with the public interest and meets all of the relevant criteria under 49 U.S.C. § 40109(g) for the grant of an exemption.6. Grant of this application is in the pub lic i nterest. T imely shipment of the engines is

imperative to avoid substantial delay in B 7 87 aircraft production line

. 7. In this instance, an emergency created by unusual circumstances not arising in the
normal course of business exists as a result of the siz e of the cargo , as well as the exigent circumstances surrounding the impossibility to use any other mode of transportation, and the lack of availability of U.S. commercial aircraft of the nature of the AN

- 124

- 100 operated by Volga

- Dnepr Airlines. As a resu lt, the best way to resolve this emergency is for the AN

- 124

- 100 aircraft to transport the equipment in question. 8. As previously stated, no U.S. carrier operates aircraft that ar e able to transport this
cargo. 9. Grant of this exemption application is ne cessary to avoid unreasonable hardship for the
traffic at issue. 10. Volga

- Dnepr’s fitness and ability to carry out the proposed transportation has been amply demonstrated through its conduct of number of cargo charter operati ons on behalf of GE
Aviation i n and out of the United States and throughout the world. 11. Grant of this application is consistent with Department precedent. Foreign air carriers have been granted emergency exemption authority to carry cargo between U.S. points when an emergency existe d as a result of unusual circumstances not arising in the normal course of business. See, e.g., Orders 96

- 6

- 31, 96

- 4

- 29, 95

- 11

- 35, 95

- 2

- 35, 94

- 11

- 6 and 94

- 4

- 14, as well as
Notices of Action Taken in dockets OST

- 04

- 17906, OST

- 07

- 26806, OST

- 07

- 27125, OST

- 07

- 28857, OST

- 08

- 0003, and OST

- 09

- 0041. 12. In light of the exigent circumstances, Volga

- Dnepr requests expeditious processing and the immediate grant of this emergency exemption application. The Department’s Procedural Regulations provide that the Department can act on an emergency exemption application immediately. Designated agent for Volga

- Dnepr will promptly advise the Department of the responses of the interested U.S. carriers to the telephone poll regarding this application.WHEREFORE, Volga

- Dnepr respe ctfully requests that the Department issue an

emergency exemption permitting it to operate two ( 2 ) one
- way cargo charter flight s , utilizing Volga

- D nepr’s AN

- 124

- 100 aircraft , to transport cargo from Columbus , Ohio, to Seattle , Washington , on or around Marc h 10

– 15 , 201 5 , as described herein, and grant such further relief as the Department deems to be cons istent with the public interest.

Respectfully submitted,

_______________________________________ Artem Tarasenko Designated agent for Volga

- Dne pr Airlines (832) 585

- 8611

Dated: March 4 , 201 5CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I hereby certify that I have on this day served a copy of the foregoing document upon all persons named on the attached service list via electronic mail.

Artem Tarasen ko

Dated : March 4 , 201 5Service List

Robert P. Silverberg Jeff Johnson Silverberg, Goldman & Bikoff, LLP Suite 120 1101 30 th Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20007 For ABX AIR Telephone: 202

- 944

- 3300 Fax: 202

- 944

- 3306 rsilverberg@sgbdc.com jjohnson@sgbdc.com David Heffernan Cozen O’Connor For ALASKA AIRLINES Telephone: 202

- 463

- 2537 Fax: 202

- 640

- 5985 dheffernan@cozen.com

Howard Kass Bob Wirick For: AMERI CAN AIRLINES U.S. AIRWAYS howard.kass@aa.com robert.wirick@aa.com John L. Richardson John L. Richardson, P.L.L.C. 555 13 th Street, N.W. Suite 420 West Washington, DC 20004 For: AMERIJET INTERNATIONAL, INC. Telephone: 202

- 371

- 2258 Fax: 202

- 828

- 0158 jrichardson@johnlrichardson.com Michelle Riordan mriordan@johnlrich ardson.com Joan M. Canny Senior Vice President and General Counsel AMERIJET INTERNATIONAL, INC. 2800 S. Andrews Ave. Ft. Lauderdale, FL. 33316 Office 954

- 320

- 5300, Fax 305

- 423

- 3246 Direct 954

- 320

- 5367 jcanny@ameri jet.com
Russell Pommer 1747 Pennsylvania Ave, N.W. Suite 875 Washington, D. C. 20006 For: ATLAS AIR Telephone: 202

- 822

- 9121 Fax: 202

- 822

- 9152 rpommer@atlasair.com John Mietus Law Office of John Mietus, LLC 67 01 Democracy Blvd., Ste 300 Bethesda, MD 20817

- 7500 For: CENTURION AIR CARGO & SKYLEASE Telephone: 301

- 571

- 9334 Fax: 240

- 396

- 5362 john@mietuslaw.comAlexander Van der Bellen

1275 K St., NW, Suite 1200 Washington, DC 20005 Chris Walker 202 842 3949 For: DELTA AIRLINES sascha.vanderbellen@delta.com chris.walker@delta.com S andra Lunsford 3620 Hacks Cross Rd Bldg. B, 3 rd Floor Memphis, TN 38135 For: FEDERAL EXPRESS CORP. Telephone: 901

- 434

- 8589 Fax: 901

- 434

- 9289 Sandra Lunsford sllunsford@fedex.com Sandy Sinick sandysinick@gmail.com For: FLORIDA WEST
Stephen Lachter slachter@cozen.com Telephone: 202

- 471

- 3416 Fax: 202

- 618

- 4 833 F or: FRONTIER AIRLINES

Rick Zerkel, President rzerkel@lac.lynden.com Garry White gwhite@lac.lynden.com Jim Davis jdavis@lac.lynden.com For: LYNDEN AIR CARGO 6441 s. Airpark Place Anchorage, AK 99502 Telephone: 907

- 249

- 4100 Fax: 907

- 24 5

- 0642 Cozen O’Connor 1627 I Street, NW, Ste 1100 Washington, DC 20006 For: KALITTA AIR, L.L.C. Telephone: 202

- 463

- 2525 Fax: 202

- 463

- 4950 DPefley@cozen.com Mark Atwood matwood@cozen.com Ned Wal lace nwallace@wallaceair.com Lynn Stauffer lstauffer@wallaceair.com Margot Wiegele 3900 Old Int’l Airport Rd. Anchorage, Alaska 995 02 For: NORTHERN AIR CARGO Telephone: 907

- 2 49

- 5142 Fax: 907

- 249

- 5194 mwiegele@nac.aero Sami Glascott SGlascott@nac.aero Kevin P. Montgomery 1747 Pennsylvania Ave., NW Suite 875 Washington, DC 20006 For: POLAR AIR Telephone: 202

- 828

- 1002 Fax: 202

- 828

- 1003 Peter Beckett Telephone 310

- 743

- 0142 Kevi n.montgomery@polaraircargo.com peter.beckett@polaraircargo.com Tom Gillies Paul Chase For: SOUTHERN AIR Telephone: 203

- 847

- 6000 TGillies@southernair.com PChase@southernair.com Aaron A. Goerlich Garofalo, Goerlich & Hainbach, PC 1200 New Hampshire Ave., Suite 800 Washington, DC 20036 agoerlich@ggh

- airlaw.comDa n Weiss

1600 Smith Street, Ste HQSGV Houston, TX 77002 For: UNITED AIRLINES Telephone: 713

- 324

- 6697 or 713

- 324

- 2140 or (312) 997

- 7573 (Dan Weiss) Fax: 713

- 324

- 2749 dan.weiss@coair.com Anita Mosner Partner Holla nd & Knight For: UNITED PARCEL SERVICES 2099 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Suite 100 Washington DC 20006 T: +1.202.419.2604 F: +1.202.955.5564 anita.mosner@hklaw.com jennifer.nowak@hklaw.com dsmalls@ups.com
Frank Avent Airline Information Research 2115 Stuart Ave Richmond , VA 23220 Telephone: 703

- 489

- 9801 info@airlineinfo.com Stephe n A. Cristina Acting Dep. Asst. Secy, Trnsp. Affairs Department of State 2201 C Street, NW, Room 5830 Washington, DC 20520 Fax: 202

- 647

- 4324 CristinaSA@state.gov Roger Rapier Systems Operations Security Center (AJR

- 213) FAA AIR TRAFFIC SYSTEM OPERATIONS SECURITY 800 Independence Ave., SW Washington, DC 20591 Telephone: 202

- 267

- 8115/5775 Fax: 202

- 267

- 9208 9

- ATOR

- HQ

- RT

- REQ@faa.gov A. Oakely Brooks, President & CEO & Paul Doell, Dir. Govt Affairs National Air Carriers’ Association (NACA) Suite 1700 1000 Wilson Avenue Arlington, VA 22209

- 3901 Telephone: 703

- 358

- 8065 Fax: 703

- 358

- 8070 Pdoell@naca.cc Dawn Pefley