BEFORE THE 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

WASHINGTON, DOC. 

_______________________________ 

Agreements Adopted by the Traffic 

Conferences of the International Docket OSTAir Transport Association 

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APPLICATION FOR APPROVAL OF AGREEMENTS 

BY THE 

INTERNATIONAL AIR TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION

 27 October 2010 

 Communications with respect to 

 this document should be sent to: 

 

 Douglas Lavin 

 Regional Vice President – North America 

 International Air Transport Association 

 1776 K St. N.W. #12th Floor 

 Washington, D.C. 20006 

 (202)293-9292 
Summary DOCKET: OST- DOT ORDER: pending 

Date: 27 October 2010 

Filing fee/IATA Acct: $366 – CAR002CH01 

US/UST involved?: yes 

Intended effective date: 1 October 2010 

Meeting date/time: Mail Vote 002/10 

Agreement/Minutes: Mail vote 002/10

 Cargo Tariff Coordinating Conference 

Composite Meeting 

(Memo 0635) 

 

APPLICATION FOR APPROVAL OF AGREEMENT

 Pursuant to statements submitted by Member airlines of the International Air Transport 

Association (IATA), the undersigned has been constituted to be their attorney-in-fact for filing with 

the Department of Transportation copies of agreements adopted by the IATA Traffic Conferences. 

 On their behalf, and pursuant to Sections 41308 and 41309 of Title 49 of the United 

States Code and Parts 303.03, 303.05 and 303.30(c) of Title 14 of the Code of Federal 

Regulations, I am filing with the Department this application for approval of an IATA 

agreement. 

 

 This agreement and related factual and explanatory materials and documentation required 

by 14 C.F.R. 303.31 and Department and Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) precedent are 

contained in the IATA Traffic Conference documentation summarized above. 

 

 This agreement arises from the continuing process of Services Conferences through 

which IATA Member airlines establish standardized facilitation arrangements intended to ease 

international air transportation and interline procedures. This agreement was developed in the 

context of prior Department and CAB ruling addressing related agreements which reflected 

regulatory and market conditions then in effect. The present agreement, which makes 

amendments to the framework agreements forming the charter for ongoing facilitation programs 

or creates new agreements pursuant to that framework, should be viewed as part of a dynamic 

process of IATA Member airline adjustment to governmental and economic factors. 

 

 On previous occasions, the Department and CAB have found these framework 

agreements to be consistent with the public interest. The present agreement does not impair the 

previous bases for approval and themselves are not adverse to the public interest. Moreover, 

approval of this agreement, which reflects compromises among the differing economic and 

social philosophies of the many nations whose airlines are parties, will advance the public 

interest in maintaining good aviation relations with other countries. 

 

 We request early approval by the Department pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 41309 and the grant 

of full antritrust immunity pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 41308. The conferral of full antitrust immunity 
would be in the public interest and necessary for the transaction to proceed. This agreement is a 

product of the IATA Services Conferences which the Department found to be anticompetitive 

but nevertheless approved and immunized in Order 85-5-32 (May 6, 1985) on foreign policy and 

comity grounds. 

 

 The agreement embodies amendments to services resolutions/recommended practices that 

have been previously approved and immunized or creates new resolutions/recommended 

practices pursuant to the framework forming the charter for ongoing facilitation programs. 

Therefore, consistent with the Department’s policy of immunizing amendments coextensively 

with the underlying agreement, the subject agreement should be granted immunity. 

 

 Respectfully submitted: 

 _____________________________ 

 Douglas Lavin 

 Regional Vice President – North America 

 International Air Transport Association 

 Attorney-in-fact 

 
 

 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

 A copy of this application or a summary notice thereof has been served by first class or priority 

mail on the following persons: 

US DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

450 5th St. NW, 8th floor 

Washington D.C. 20530 

Att: Donna Kooperstein 

Tel: 202 307 6349 

 

 

________________________________ 

Douglas Lavin 

27 October 2010 

Date Served 
International Air Transport Association

33, Route de l'Aéroport 

P.O. Box 416 

1215 Geneva 15 Airport, Switzerland

MAIL VOTE

(CTC/COMP/002/10) 

TO: Members participating in Tariff Coordinating Conferences 

FROM: Director, Cargo Distribution 

DATE: October 8, 2010 

SUBJECT: Mail Vote 001/ 10 

Cargo Tariff Conference – Composite Meeting Mail Vote 

______________________________________________________________________ 

Dear Colleagues, 

Further to Mail Vote 001/10 issued Sep 14, 2010, please be advised that no negative votes 

were received and the MV is therefore declared adopted. 

 

Resolutions 001aa, 500, 501a, 530, 550, 590 have therefore been revalidated and the new 

validity expires end of September 2012. 

Action:

Members are requested to take appropriate filing action and advise the IATA secretariat of 

the outcome. 

Best regards, 

Glyn Hughes 

Director, Cargo Distribution
Resolution Summary of Resolution Sum

Resolution 001aa Special Applicability Resolution, Alliance Countries Revalidation fResolution 500 TC2 Special Rates System Resolution Within Europe except between countries in the ECAA Revalidation fResolution 501a Small Package Service Japan-Canada, Mexico, USA Revalidation fResolution 530 Rates and/or Charges for Unitised Consignments Revalidation fResolution 550 GCRS Revalidation f

Resolution 590 SCRS Revalidation f

Normal Resolutions

Intended Effectiveness Date: 1 October 2010

33, Route de l'Aéroport 1215 Geneva 15 Airport

Switzerland