U.S. Department of 

Transportation 

Office of the Secretary 

of Transportation 

DEPARTMENT ACTION ON APPLICATION IN DOCKET 

DOT-OST-2015-0015 

Joint application of Korean Air Lines Co., Ltd. (Korean) and Aerolineas Argentina S.A. 

{Aerolineas) for a statements of authorization under 14 CFR Part 212 to permit (a) Korean to 

display the AR* designator code of Aerolineas on flights operated by Korean between Seoul, 

Korea, and New York, NY, for the purpose of transporting Aerolineas' traffic between the 

Republic of Korea and Argentina; and (b) Aerolineas to display the KE* designator code of 

Korean on flights operated by Aerolineas between Buenos Aires, Argentina, and New York, 

New York, for the purpose of transporting Korean's traffic between the Republic of Korea 

and Argentina. The joint applicants also requests a waiver of the 45-day advance filing 

requirements under 14 CFR Part 212.10(d)(2). 1 

Approved under assigned authority (14 CFR § 385.13). 

Date of Action: February (6 __ , _~ 

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: 

http://lwww.regulations.gov 

1 The Department is acting on the joint applicants' request prior to the expiration of the 45-day advance filing 

requirement with the consent of all parties served. 
The code-share operations authorized here are subject to the following conditions: 

(a) The statement of authorization will rema in in effect only as long as (i) Korean and Aerolineas continue to 

ho ld the necessary underly ing authority to operate the code-share services at issue, and (ii) the code-share 

agreement providing fo r the code-share operations remains in effect. 

(b) Korean and/or Aerolineas must promptly notify the Departme nt if the code-share agreement providing 

for the code-share operations is no longer effective or the carriers decide to cease operating any or all of the 

approved code-share services? Such notice should be filed in Docket DOT-OST-20 15-001 5. 

(c) The code-sharing operations conducted under this authority must comply with 14 CFR 257 and with any 

amendments to the Department's regulations concerning code-share arrangements that may be adopted. 

Notwithstand ing any provisions in the contract between the carriers, our approval here is expressly 

conditioned upon the requireme nts 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. 

(d) The authority granted here is specifically conditioned so that neither Korean nor Aerolineas shall give any 

force or effect to any contractual provisions between themselves that are contrary to these conditions. 

(e) We may amend, modi fy, or revoke the authority granted at any time without hearing at our discretion. 

2 We expect this notification to be rece ived within I 0 days of such non-effectiveness or of such decision.