### UNITED STATES OF AMERICA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION OFFICE OFTHE SECRETARY WASHINGTON, D.C.



### DEPARTMENT ACTION ON APPLICATION IN DOCKET DOT-OST-2015-0109 filed May 22, 2015 

### Application ofAeroLogic GmbH (AeroLogic) for a blanket statement ofauthorization for an indefinite period under 14 CFRPart212 to display the (PO*) designator code ofPolarAir Cargo (Polar) on flights operated by AeroLogic for the purpose oftransporting cargo and mail between Hong Kong and Cincinnati, Ohio, in either orboth directions. The applicant also requests a waiver ofthe 45-day advance filing requirement under 14 CFRPart212.
*Approved under assigned authority (14 C.F.R. 

### § 385.13)

Date ofAction: 

### June 9, 2015

Persons entitledto petitionthe Department for review ofthis action under the Department's regulations, 14 CFR 

### § 385.30, should file their petitions within seven days ofthe date ofthis action. This action is effective immediately, and the filing ofa petition for review will not alter its effectiveness. We may amend, modify, or revoke the authority granted at any time, without hearing, at our discretion.

*The authority granted is subject to the attached conditions.The statement ofauthorization granted is subjectto the following conditions: (a) The statement ofauthorization will remain in effect only as long as (i) AeroLogic and Polar continue to hold the necessary underlying authority to operate the code-share services at issue, and (ii) the code-share agreement providing for the code-share operations remains in effect. (b) AeroLogic and/or Polarmust promptly notify the Department ifthe code-share agreement providing for the code-share operations is no longer effective or ifthe carriers decide to cease operating all or a portion ofthe approved code-share services. Such notices should be filed in Docket OST-2015-0109. 1 (c) The code-sharing operations conducted underthis authority must comply with 14 CFR §257 and with any amendment to the Department's regulations concerning codeshare arrangements that may be adopted. Notwithstanding any provisions in the contract between the carriers, our approval here is expressly conditioned upon the requirements that the subject foreign air transportation be sold in the name ofthe carrier holding out such service in computer reservation systems and elsewhere; thatthe carrier selling such transportation (i.e., the carrier shown on the waybill) accept responsibility for the entirety ofthe codesharejourneyfor all obligations established in its contract ofcarriage with the shipper; that the cargo liability ofthe operating carrierbe unaffected; and that the operating carrier shall not permit the code ofits U.S. code-sharing partnerto be carried on any flight that enters, departs, ortransits the airspace ofany area for whose airspace the Federal Aviation Administration has issued a flight prohibition. (d) The authority granted here is specifically conditioned so that neither AeroLogic nor Polar shall give any force oreffect to any contractual provisions between themselves that are contrary to these conditions. (e) We may amend, modify, orrevoke the authority granted at any time without hearing at our discretion.

1We expectthis notification to be received within 10 days ofsuch non-effectiveness or ofsuch decision.