BEFORE THE

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

WASHINGTON, D.C.

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Application of :

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UNITED AIRLINES, INC. : Docket DOT-OST-1997-2516

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for an exemption pursuant to 49 U.S.C. § 40109 :

(U.S.-Venezuela) :

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APPLICATION OF 

UNITED AIRLINES, INC.

FOR RENEWAL

Communications with respect to this document should be sent to:

Hershel I. Kamen

Senior Vice President-Alliances,

 Regulatory and Policy

Daniel A. Weiss

Managing Director-International

 Affairs and Regulatory

UNITED AIRLINES, INC.

233 South Wacker Drive

10th Floor – HDQIZ

Chicago, IL 60606

(872) 825-6828

hershel.kamen@united.com

dan.weiss@united.com

Steve Morrissey

Managing Director-Regulatory Affairs 

 and Policy

Karine R. Faden

Managing Counsel-Regulatory, Antitrust &

 Competition

UNITED AIRLINES, INC.

1225 New York Avenue, NW

Suite 1100 – DCAIZ/DCALD

Washington, DC 20005

(202) 521-4373

(202) 521-4363

steve.morrissey@united.com

karine.faden@united.com

December 20, 2013

Thomas Newton Bolling

Vice President and Deputy General Counsel

UNITED AIRLINES, INC.

233 South Wacker Drive

11th Floor – HDQLD

Chicago, IL 60606

(872) 825-8068

thomas.bolling@united.com

Douglas P. Kelley

Senior Counsel-Regulatory, Antitrust &

 Competition

UNITED AIRLINES, INC.

1600 Smith Street

HQSLG-15

Houston, TX 77002

(713) 324-5156

doug.kelley@united.com

Gerald F. Murphy

Steven J. Seiden

CROWELL & MORING LLP

1001 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Washington, DC 20004

(202) 624-2500

gmurphy@crowell.com

sseiden@crowell.com

Counsel for

United Airlines, Inc.
BEFORE THE

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

WASHINGTON, D.C.

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Application of :

 :

UNITED AIRLINES, INC. : Docket DOT-OST-1997-2516

 :

for an exemption pursuant to 49 U.S.C. § 40109 :

(U.S.-Venezuela) :

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APPLICATION OF 

UNITED AIRLINES, INC.

FOR RENEWAL

United1applies, pursuant to 49 U.S.C. § 40109 and Subpart C of the Department’s Rules 

of Practice, for renewal of its exemption from 49 U.S.C. § 41101 permitting United to provide 

scheduled foreign air transportation of persons, property and mail between the coterminal points 

New Orleans, Houston and Dallas/Ft. Worth and the coterminal points Maracaibo and Caracas, 

Venezuela, and between Newark and Caracas, Venezuela.2 United asks the Department to renew 

this authority effective for a period of at least two years or until the Department grants United’s 

application for renewal of its U.S.-Venezuela certificate authority.3 

 

1 Common names are used for airlines.

2 By Order 2011-3-14, the Department reissued authorities previously issued only 

to United or Continental, including the exemption authority that is the subject of this renewal 

application, in the name of “Continental Airlines, Inc. and/or United Air Lines, Inc.” By Order 

2013-4-11, the Department reissued the United/Continental authorities on a blanket basis to 

reflect the completion of the United/Continental merger and integration process and United’s 

new corporate name “United Airlines, Inc.” effective as of March 31, 2013. On April 1, 2013, 

the Department reissued United’s U.S.-Venezuela exemption authority in the name “United 

Airlines, Inc.” consistent with Order 2013-4-11. 

3 United’s certificate for Route 381 (U.S.-Venezuela) was issued by Order 1999-2-

8 in this docket. Continental applied to renew this certificate authority on October 21, 2003, and 

that application remains pending. When the Department acts on that application, United asks 

that the requested authority be issued in the name “United Airlines, Inc.” 
Renewal Application of United 

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United states as follows in support of its renewal application:

1. United’s exemption authority to provide scheduled service between the 

coterminal points New Orleans, Houston and Dallas/Ft. Worth and the coterminal points 

Maracaibo and Caracas, Venezuela, and between Newark and Caracas, Venezuela, was issued by 

Notice of Action Taken dated February 21, 2012 in this docket (as reissued April 1, 2013).

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Absent renewal, this exemption authority will expire on February 21, 2014. 

2. Renewal of United’s exemption authority will preserve the important air service 

link that United’s U.S.-Venezuela service provides and ensure the continuation of airline and 

intergateway competition in the U.S.-Venezuela market. Renewal of United’s exemption

authority is also fully consistent with the U.S.-Venezuela bilateral air transport agreement.

3. United holds various certificates of public convenience and necessity and 

exemptions authorizing it to engage in scheduled air transportation of persons, property and mail 

between the U.S. and foreign countries, and United is fit, willing and able to provide the service 

for which it seeks renewal. See, e.g., Orders 2013-4-11 (reissuing United/Continental authorities 

to United), 2010-5-17 (U.S.-Mexico), and Notice of Action Taken dated February 8, 2013 in 

Docket DOT-OST-2005-21949 (Houston-Buenos Aires). Pursuant to Rule 24 of the 

Department’s Rules of Practice, United requests that the Department take official notice of all 

information and data that have been filed to establish its fitness.

4. United invokes the automatic extension provisions of 5 U.S.C. § 558(c), as 

implemented by Part 377 of the Department’s Special Regulations, to continue this authority in 

effect pending action on this renewal application.

 

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The Department granted United two-year exemption authority on a sua sponte

basis pending action on the application for renewal of United’s Route 381 certificate authority.