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U.S. Department of 

Transportation 

Office of the Secretary 

of Transportation 

DEPARTMENT ACTION ON APPLICATION IN DOCKET DOT-OST-2010-0097 

filed April 15, 2010 

Application of Deutsche Lufthansa AG (Lufthansa) for a blanket statement of 

authorization to permit Lufthansa to display the SN''' designator code of Brussels 

Airlines N.V./S.A. (Brussels Airlines) on flints operated by Lufthansa (1) 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 (2) between any point or points in the United States 

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

Lufthansa also requests a waiver of the 45-day advance filing requirements under 

14 CFR Part 212.^ 

Approved under assigned authority (14 CFR § 385.13) 

Date of Action: May 21, 2010 

Director, OfficeiPf ihtemational Aviation 

This action is subject to the conditions attached. 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. 

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

' We note that Lufthansa initially also requested authority to display the SN* designator code of Brussels 

Airlines on flights operated by Lufthansa between any point or points in the United States and any other 

point or points. Based on informal advice from the applicant, we are not acting on that portion of its 

request. 

^ The Department is acting on Lufthansa's request prior to the expiration of the 45-day advance filing 

requirement with the consent of all parties served. 
Docket DOT-OST-2010-0097 

Application of Deutsche Lufthansa AG (Lufthansa) for a blanket statement of 

authorization to permit Lufthansa to display the SN* designator code of Brussels Airlines 

N.V./S.A. (Brussels Airlines) on flights operated by Lufthansa (1) 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 (2) between any point or points in the United States and any point or points 

in any member of the European Common Aviation Area. 

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) Lufthansa and 

Brussels 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) Lufthansa and Bmssels 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 the approved code-share services. Such notice should be filed in Docket 

DOT-OST-2010-0097.= 

(c) Lufthansa and Bmssels 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 services will begin. 

Such notices shall be filed in Docket DOT-OST-2010-0097. 

d) The code-sharing operations conducted under this authority must comply with 14 CFR 257 

and with any amendments to the Department's regulations conceming 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 Lufthansa nor Turkish 

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. 

' We expect this notification to be received within 10 days of such non-effectiveness or of such decision.