UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

WASHINGTON, D.C.

DEPARTMENT ACTION ON APPLICATION IN DOCKET DOT-OST-2014-0055

filed April 10, 2014

Application of British Airways Plc (British Airways) and Finnair OYJ (Finnair) for blanket statements of 

authorization to permit:

A) British Airways to display the Finnair “AY” designator code on any segment or segments 

operated by British Airways on the following routing: (i) from any point or points behind any 

Member State of the European Union, via any point or points in any Member State and via 

intermediate points, to any point or points in the United States and beyond; and (ii) between any 

point or points in the United States and any point or points in any member of the European 

Common Aviation Area;1 and

B) Finnair to display the British Airways “BA” designator code on any segment or segments operated 

by Finnair on the following routing: (i) from any point or points behind any Member State of the 

European Union, via any point or points in any Member State and via intermediate points, to any 

point or points in the United States and beyond; and (ii) between any point or points in the United 

States and any point or points in any member of the European Common Aviation Area.

The joint applicants also request a waiver of the 45-day advance filing requirement under 14 CFR 

Part 212.

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

Date of Action: April 14, 20142

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Director, Office of International Aviation

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 The applicants also request a statement of authorization to display the Finnair “AY” designator code on flights operated by British 

Airways (BA) Limited, an affiliate of British Airways, pursuant to a wet-lease arrangement with British Airways. 2 We acted on the application without awaiting expiration of the answer period with the consent of all parties served.
ATTACHMENT A

The statements of authorization are subject to the following conditions:

(a) The statements of authorization will remain in effect only as long as (i) British Airways and Finnair 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) British Airways and/or Finnair must notify the Department no later than 30 days before they begin any new codeshare service under the code-share services authorized here. Such notice shall identify the market(s) to be served, which 

carrier will be operating the aircraft in the code-share market added, and the date on which the service will begin. Such 

notices should be filed in Docket DOT-OST-2014-0055;

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(c) British Airways and/or Finnair 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-OST-2014-0055;

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(d) The code-sharing operations conducted 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 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 British Airways nor Finnair shall give any force 

or effect to any contractual provisions between themselves that are contrary to these conditions; and

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

An electronic version of this document is available on the World Wide Web at

http://www.regulations.gov

 3 The joint applicants provided notice of their intent to engage in code-share services to open-skies points as described in the 

application. See Attachment B for a list of initial points. 4 We expect this notification to be received within 10 days of such non-effectiveness or of such decision.
ATTACHMENT B

Finnair Codeshare on British Airways Operated Flights

ROUTING

London (LCY) – New York (JFK)

London (LGW) – Las Vegas

London (LGW) – Orlando

London (LGW) – Tampa

London (LHR) – Austin

London (LHR) – Atlanta

London (LHR) – Boston

London (LHR) – Baltimore/Washington

London (LHR) – Denver

London (LHR) – Dallas-Fort Worth

London (LHR) – Newark

London (LHR) – Washington-Dulles

London (LHR) – Houston

London (LHR) – New York (JFK)

London (LHR) – Las Vegas

London (LHR) – Los Angeles

London (LHR) – Miami

London (LHR) – Chicago (ORD)

London (LHR) – Philadelphia

London (LHR) – Phoenix

London (LHR) – San Diego

London (LHR) – Seattle

London (LHR) – San Francisco

British Airways Codeshare on Finnair Operated Flights

ROUTING

Helsinki – New York (JFK)

Helsinki – Miami