Application of: 

BEFORE THE UNITED STATES 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

WASHINGTON, D.C. 

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Docket No. OST-96-1257 

SERVICIOS AEREOS INTEREST A TALES, S.A. DE C.V. 

for an exemption pursuant to 49 USC 40109 (U.S./Mexico Charter Air Transportation) 

APPLICATION OF SERVICIOS AEREOS INTEREST A TALES, S.A. DE C.V., 

FOR RENEWAL OF EXEMPTION 

Dated: November 18, 2011 

Communication with respect to this document 

should be sent to: 

Cap. Arturo Rodriguez Mata 

1209 San Daria Avenue 

Suite 7-680 

Laredo, Texas 78040-4505 

U.S.A. 

Monterrey· s Mex., phone: 01152-818152-50-00 

Ext.5225 

fax: 01152-818152-50-25 

Notice: Any person may support or oppose this application by filing an answer and serving a 

copy of the answer on counsel for SERVICIOS AEREOS INTERESTATALES, S.A. DE 

C.V., and upon each person served with this application. The due date for answers is 

December 3, 2011 
Application of: 

BEFORE THE UNITED STATES 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

WASHINGTON, D.C. 

SERVICIOS AEREOS INTEREST A TALES, S.A. DE C.V. 

for an exemption pursuant to 49 USC 40109 (U.S./Mexico Charter Air Transportation) 

APPLICATION OF SERVICIOS AEREOS INTERESTATALES, SA DE C.V. 

FOR RENEWAL OF EXEMPTION 

Pursuant to 49 U. S. C. 40109 and the Department's regulations, 

SERVICIOS AEREOS INTERESTATALES, SA DE C.V. (SAlSA) hereby applies for renewal of its 

exemption from 49 U.S C. 40301 which authorizes SAlSA to engage in charter foreign air 

transportation of persons and their accompanying baggage with small aircraft between the United 

States and Mexico, and, subject to prior Department approval, between other countries and the 

United States. SAlSA also requests renewal of its relief from the requirement to obtain advance 

approval for each Mexico-U.S. flight and stopover privileges. The Department granted the above 

authority to SAlSA by Notice of Action Taken dated on January 13, 2010. SAlSA requests that this 

authority, which is scheduled to expire on January 13, 2012, be renewed for a period of at least two 

years. 

SAlSA invokes the automatic extension provisions of the Administrative 

Procedure Act, 5 U. S. C. 558 (c), as implemented by 14 C.F.R. Part 377, to maintain its exemption 

authority in effect pending a final Department determination on this renewal application. 

In support of this application, SAlSA states as follows: 

1 :-SAlSA continues to be frt, willing and able to provide the small aircraft 

passenger charter services for which it requests renewed authority. The relevant circumstances 

under which SAlSA received its initial grant of exemption authority are unchanged. 
2.-SAISA"s Third and Fourth Freedom charter authority is authorized by 

Annex II to the U. S.- Mexico Air Transport Agreement, and is therefore presumptively in the public 

interest. SAISA"s Fifth Freedom charter authority is based on principles of comity and reciprocity, as 

is its relief from the advance approval requirement for transborder charter flights and any grant of 

stopover privileges. SAlSA submits that continuation of this extra-bilateral authorizations is 

warranted given the harmonius state of aviation relations between the U.S. and Mexico. 

Consequently, renewal of all elements of SAlSA's authority would be consistent with the public 

interest. Further, the services provided by SAlSA satisfy a continuing need and other wise serve the 

public interest by fostering commerce between Mexico and the United States consistent with the 

objectives of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). 

3.- SAlSA's renewal application is limited in scope and non-controversial. 

The services SAlSA proposes to operate are substantially identical to those it performed during the 

past year, i.e. highly personalized transport services to executives and their invitees using small 

business-type aircraft. SAlSA's Mexican authority to engage in transborder passenger charter 

services remains in full force and effect, as does its U.S. authority pursuant to its FAA Part 129 

Operations Specifications. 

WHEREFORE, SAlSA respectfully requests renewal of its authority to 

engage in charter foreign air transportation of persons and their accompanying baggage with small 

aircraft as set forth herein, and such other relief as may be in the public interest. 

Respectfully submitted, 

~;;;;:: CAP. ARTURO RODRIGUEZ MATA 

SERVICIOS AEREOS INTERESTATALES, S.A. DE C. V. 

November 18, 2011