AMERICAN AIRLINES 

September 23, 2010 

Paul L. Gretch 

Director, Office of International 

 Aviation 

Department of Transportation 

1200 New Jersey Ave., S.E. 

Washington, D.C. 20590 

 Re: Notice of American Airlines (Chicago-Mexico City) 

 (DOT-OST-2004-16945)_____________________________

Dear Mr. Gretch: 

 American Airlines, Inc. hereby provides notice that, 

effective December 16, 2010, or as soon as all necessary 

authorizations are obtained, it will resume nonstop operations 

with its own aircraft between Chicago and Mexico City. 

 American will operate daily nonstop service on a yearround basis using 148-seat B737 aircraft (16C/132Y). Southbound, American will depart Chicago at 0900 and arrive in Mexico 

City at 1315. Northbound, American will depart Mexico City at 

1420 and arrive in Chicago at 1810. 

 American’s certificate of public convenience and necessity for Route 628 authorizes scheduled foreign air transporttation of persons, property, and mail on several U.S.-Mexico 

transborder route segments, including Chicago-Mexico City. 

American started operating ORD-MEX service in the 1940s. On May 

16, 2004, American began reciprocal codeshare services with 

Mexicana between Chicago and Mexico City, as authorized by 

Notice of Action Taken in this docket dated April 29, 2004. 

American continued to display the AA* code on Mexicana’s 

Chicago-Mexico City flights until Mexicana ceased operations on 

August 11, 2010. 

 On May 9, 2009, American suspended its own-metal ORD-MEX 

nonstop flights, but inadvertently did not provide notice to the 

Department as required by Order 99-6-6, June 4, 1999, p. 9: 
- 2 – 

 “Any U.S. carrier wishing to convert its authorized 

 nonstop transborder operations from direct carrier 

 service (designation) to service involving only 

 the display of its code on another Mexican or U.S. 

 carrier’s flights (codeshare-only authorization), 

 or vice versa, must file a notice with the Depart- 

 ment . . . . If no party opposes the request, and 

 sufficient designations or codeshare-only authorizations, as applicable, are available, we will 

convert the operations as requested.” 

 

 By this letter, American provides notice that it will 

resume own-metal nonstop operations between Chicago and Mexico 

City effective December 16, 2010, and requests that the Department convert American’s authorized ORD-MEX operations from 

codeshare-only to direct carrier service. 

 We are polling the parties named on the attached service 

list for non-objections. 

 Respectfully submitted, 

 

 

Carl B. Nelson 

 Associate General Counsel 

 American Airlines, Inc. 

 1101 17th Street, N.W., Suite 600 

 Washington, D.C. 20036 

 (202) 496-5647 

 carl.nelson@aa.com 

cc: Docket Branch 

 Esta Rosenberg 

 Linda Lundell 

 Service list 

 
CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

 I hereby certify that I have this day served the 

foregoing document by email on the following carriers: 

 Air Tran epfaberman@wileyrein.com 

 Frontier 

 

 Alaska, Horizon msinick@ssd.com 

Amerijet jrichardson@johnlrichardson.com 

 

 Continental dweiss@coair.com 

 ExpressJet 

 

 Delta sascha.vanderbellen@delta.com 

 Pinnacle 

 SkyWest 

 JetBlue jhill@dowlohnes.com 

 Spirit jyoung@yklaw.com 

 Sun Country john.fredericksen@suncountry.com 

 United, Mesa jeffrey.manley@united.com 

US Airways howard.kass@usairways.com 

 USA 3000 pmurphy@lopmurphy.com 

 FedEx nssparks@fedex.com 

 UPS dvaughan@kelleydrye.com 

 ABX rsilverberg@sgbdc.com 

 

 ________________________ 

 CARL B. NELSON 

September 23, 2010