BEFORE THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION WASHINGTON, D.C.

__________________________________________ ) Joint A pplication of ) ) CATHAY PACIFIC AIRWAYS LIMITED ) and ) Docket OST

- 20 14

- MALAYSIA AIRLINE S ) ) under 14 CFR Part 212 for statement s of ) authorization (code

- sharing) ) __________________________________________)
JOINT APPLICATION OF CATHAY PACIFIC AIRWAYS LIMITED AND MALAYSIA AIRLINE S FOR STATEMENT S OF AUTHORIZATION Communications with respect to this document should be sent to:

John R. Mietus, Jr. LAW OFFICE OF JOHN MIETUS, LLC 6701 Democracy Boulevard Ste 300 Bethesda, Maryland 20817 (202) 747

- 5212 john@mietuslaw.com Counsel for CATHAY PACIFIC AIRWAYS LIMITED Charles J. Simpson, Jr. David M. Endersbee ZUCKERT, SCOUTT & RASENBERGER, LLP 888 Seventeenth Street NW Ste 700 Washington DC 20006 (202) 973

- 7926 cjsimpson@zsrlaw.com dmendersbee@zsrlaw.com Counsel for MALAYSIA AIRLINE S

NOTICE: Any person may support or oppose this application by filing an answer and serving a copy of the answer on counsel for the Joint Applicants and upon persons served with this application no later than May 14, 2014

. THE JOINT APPLICANTS INTEND TO P OLL. May 7 , 2014BEFORE THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION WASHINGTON, D.C.

__________________________________________ ) Joint A pplication of ) ) CATHAY PACIFIC AIRWAYS LIMITED ) and ) Docket OST

- 2014

- MALAYSIA AIRLINES ) May 7, 2014 ) under 14 CFR Part 212 for statement s of ) authorization (codesharing) ) __________________________________________)
JOINT APPLICATION OF CATHAY PACIFIC AIRWAYS LIMITED AND MALAYSIA AIRLINE S FOR STATEMENTS OF AUTHORIZATION

Cathay Pacific Airways Limited (“Cathay”) and Malaysia Airline s (“MAS”) hereby apply for statements of authorization pursuant to Part 212 of the Department’s Economic Regulations, 14 C.F.R. Part 212, to engage in certain transpacific code

- sharing services in the Kuala Lumpur

– Hong Kong

– U.S. market as described in pa ragraph 2 below. Because Cathay and MAS wish to begin these code

- sharing services in the near future, the Joint Applicants request a waiver of the 45

- day advance filing requirement of 14
C.F.R. § 212.10(d)(2) and will poll U.S. carriers served with this application as to their position.Cathay and MAS Joint Application Page 2 In support of thi s Joint Application, the Joint Applicants state as
follows:

1. The Joint Applicants are members of the oneworld alliance , and each operates transpacific service s to and from the United States

. Cathay
holds an exemption authorizing scheduled foreign air transportation of persons, property, and mail between Hong Kong, via intermediate points, to a point or points in the United States, as coterminal points, and beyond

. Notice of Action Taken dated March 20, 2014 in Docket OST

- 2003

- 14493. MAS holds a foreign air carrier permit authorizing scheduled foreign air transportation of persons, property and mail from points behind Malaysia via Malaysia and intermediate points to a point or points in the United S tates and beyond. Order 2002

- 9

- 26.

2

. The Joint Applicants now wish to place the “MH” designator code of MAS on Cathay’s transpacific services. Cathay therefore requests a statement of authorization permitting it to place the “MH” designator code of MAS on Cathay’s flights between Hong Kong and Cathay’s authorized U.S.
gateways ; Cathay currently operates combination service from Hong Kong to Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco . Cathay and MAS also
code

- share on each other’s flights between Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur

. T o the extent the Department deems it necessa ry, the Joint Applicants
therefore also request a statement of authorization for each to display theCathay and MAS Joint Application Page 3 other’s designator code on its Hong Kong

- Kuala Lumpur flights for the purpose of carrying code

- share passengers connecting in Hong Kong and originating in or destined for the United States. See Notice of Action Taken
dated Dec. 20, 2001 in Docket OST

- 2001

- 11127 (All Nippon Airways/Thai Airways).
3. The proposed code

- share service is consistent with the 2002 U.S.

- Hong Kong Memorandum of Understanding and th e 1997 U.S.

- Malaysia bilateral aviation agreement , which authorize third

- country code

- sharing in paragraph 4.1 and article 8(7), respectively. The proposed service is also in the public interest, as it will offer additional service options for the traveli ng public.
4. The Joint Applicants request that the statements of authorization sought herein remain in effect for an indefinite period, and they will accept the Department’s standard code

- share conditions as to the requeste d
statements of authorization.