BEFORE THE

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

WASHINGTON, D.C.

_________________________________________

)

Application of )

)

Aeroenlaces Nacionales, S.A. de C.V. ) Docket No. OST-2011-0148

(d/b/a vivaAerobus) )

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For an Amendment to Foreign Air Carrier )

Permit )

_________________________________________ )

SUPPLEMENT TO APPLICATION OF 

AEROENLACES NACIONALES, S.A. de C.V. (VIVAAEROBUS) 

FOR AN AMENDMENT TO FOREIGN AIR CARRIER PERMIT

Communications concerning this document should be addressed to:

David M. Kirstein

Joanne W. Young

KIRSTEIN & YOUNG PLLC

1750 K Street N.W.

Suite 200

Washington, D.C. 20006

(202) 331-3348 (telephone)

(202) 331-3933 (facsimile)

Counsel for

Aeroenlaces Nacionales, S.A. de C.V.

May 11, 2012

NOTICE: Answers to this supplement must be filed with the Department on or before May 

18, 2012. 
BEFORE THE 

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

WASHINGTON, D.C.

_________________________________________

)

Application of )

)

Aeroenlaces Nacionales, S.A. de C.V. ) Docket No. OST-2011-0148

(d/b/a vivaAerobus) )

)

For an Amendment to Foreign Air Carrier )

Permit )

_________________________________________ )

SUPPLEMENT NO. 1 TO APPLICATION OF 

AEROENLACES NACIONALES, S.A. de C.V. (VIVAAEROBUS) 

FOR AN AMENDMENT TO FOREIGN AIR CARRIER PERMIT

By Application filed August 9, 2011 in this docket, Aeroenlaces Nacionales, S.A. de C.V.

(“vivaAerobus”), a Mexican air carrier, respectfully requested that the Department amend the 

carrier’s Foreign Air Carrier Permit to integrate both exemption authorities requested in that 

application, which were granted by Notice of Action Taken dated August 17, 2011, as well as

vivaAerobus’s then existing exemption authorities. Pursuant to 49 U.S.C.§§ 41301 and 41302

and 14 C.F.R. Part 211 of the Department’s Economic Regulations, and in support of its 

application, vivaAerobus hereby files this Supplement No. 1 to its Application for an 

Amendment to its Foreign Air Carrier Permit in order to fulfill the information requirements of 

14 C.F.R. § 211.21. vivaAerobus provides the following information:

1. REQUESTED AMENDMENT: vivaAerobus requests integration into its 

Foreign Air Carrier Permit, which was issued by Order 2008-1-23, of the following exemption

authorities:
Supplement No. 1 Application of Aeroenlaces Nacionales, S.A. de C.V.

Amendment to Foreign Air Carrier Permit

Page 2 of 4

(a) Monterrey, Mexico — Orlando, FL; Docket OST-2011-0148

(b) Monterrey, Mexico — Miami, FL; Docket OST-2011-0148

(c) Guadalajara, Mexico — Houston, TX; Docket OST-2011-0148

(d) Guadalajara, Mexico — San Antonio, TX; Docket OST-2011-0148

(e) Monterrey, Mexico – Las Vegas, Nevada; Docket OST-2008-0095

(b) Monterrey, Mexico – Houston, Texas; Docket OST-2010-0082

(d) Monterrey, Mexico – San Antonio, Texas; Docket OST-2011-0060

(e) Monterrey, Mexico - Chicago, Illinois; Docket OST-2011-0060

(f) Guadalajara, Mexico – Las Vegas, Nevada; Docket OST 2011-0060

vivaAerobus does not request integration of its Hermosillo, Mexico — Las Vegas, NV 

exemption authority, Docket OST-2009-0298. By this application, vivaAerobus does not propose 

any new or altered service.

2. NAME AND ADDRESS: The official name and address of the applicant is

Terminal “C”

General Mariano Escobedo International Airport

C.P. 66600, Monterrey, N.L.

México 

Telephone: +52 (81) 82 150 505

Fax: +52 (81) 82 150 511

Email: mike.szucs@vivaAerobus.com

vivaAerobus is a joint venture company organized under the laws of Mexico; 

specifically, under the Sociedad Anónima. 
Supplement No. 1 Application of Aeroenlaces Nacionales, S.A. de C.V.

Amendment to Foreign Air Carrier Permit

Page 3 of 4

3. FOREIGN AIR TRANSPORT AUTHORITY: The name and official address 

of the Mexican Government air transport authority having regulatory jurisdiction over 

vivaAerobus is:

Dirección General de Aeronáutica Civil - DGAC

Calle Providencia 807 3er. piso 

Col. Del Valle 

Delegación Benito Juárez

C.P. 03100

D.F.

Telephone: +52 (55) 5523 6642 

Fax: +52 (55) 5687 7660

4. AIR OPERATOR CERTIFICATE: The Mexican Civil Aviation Authority 

(DGAC) has issued vivaAerobus an Air Carrier Operations Certificate (“AOC”) pursuant to 

Mexican law. The AOC is attached at Exhibit A. 

5. GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE: vivaAerobus has not received and does not 

expect to receive financial assistance from the Mexican government. 

6. U.S.-MEXICO AIR TRANSPORT AGREEMENT: The requested authority is 

covered by the U.S.-Mexico Air Transport Agreement. On December 12, 2005, the Governments 

of the United States and Mexico signed an amendment to the bilateral agreement broadening air 

transport services between the two countries and permitting designated Mexican carriers to 

operate from a “point or points in Mexico to a point or points in the United States” subject to 

limitations on the number of designations per market. vivaAerobus’s services are within the 

scope of the U.S.-Mexico bilateral. 

7. SAFETY/COMPLIANCE RECORD: vivaAerobus has not involved in any 

safety or tariff violation or fatal accidents since the commencement of its air transportation 

services in 2006. 
Supplement No. 1 Application of Aeroenlaces Nacionales, S.A. de C.V.

Amendment to Foreign Air Carrier Permit

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8. FINANCIAL MATERIALS: Pursuant to Section 302.12 of the Department's 

Rules of Practice, vivaAerobus requests confidential treatment of the materials required by 

§211.21(c) and will submit financial summaries setting forth its profit and loss statements and 

balance sheets for the two (2) most recent available years by separate filing and under seal 

directly to the docketing office.

9. OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL: The ownership and control of vivaAerobus 

are substantially unchanged from that described in its initial foreign air carrier application of 

August 2, 2007. 

10. MAINTENANCE PROGRAM: vivaAerobus’s maintenance program complies 

with the provisions of ICAO Pilots and Airman Annexes 1, 6 (Part 1) and 7. Mexico is a 

contracting State to the Convention on International Civil Aviation.

WHEREFORE, vivaAerobus respectfully requests that the Department grant this 

application for an amended Foreign Air Carrier Permit to authorize scheduled combination 

services from a point or points in Mexico via intermediate points to a point or points in the 

United States, and any other relief it may find to be in the public interest. 

Respectfully Submitted,

David M. Kirstein

Joanne W. Young

KIRSTEIN & YOUNG PLLC

1750 K Street N.W.

Suite 200

Washington, D.C. 20006

(202) 331-3348 (telephone)

Counsel for 

Aeroenlaces Nacionales, S.A. de C.V.

May 11, 2012
Certificate of Service

I certify that on this 11th day of May 2012, a copy of the foregoing Application of 

Aeroenlaces Nacionales, S.A. de C.V. for Exemptions was served by email on the following:

anita.mosner@hklaw.com

benjamin_slocum@usairways.com

bob.kneisley@wnco.com

carl.nelson@aa.com

cefelts@fedex.com

dan.weiss@coair.com

howard_kass@usairways.com

jeff.morgan@delta.com

Jennifer.nowak@hklaw.com

jhill@dlalaw.com

jrichardson@johnlrichardson.com

JCanny@amerijet.com

msinick@ssd.com

oracio.marquez@united.com

john.allen@faa.gov

urskr @state.gov

brian.hedberg@dot.gov

robert.finamore@dot.gov

patrick.rizzi@hoganlovells.com

pmurphy@lopmurphy.com

rbkeiner@crowell.com

robert.cohn@hoganlevells.com

robert.land@jetblue.com

rpommer@atlasair.com

rsilverberg@sgbdc.com

sascha.vanderbellen@delta.com

stephen.lachter@lachterlaw.com

sllunsford@fedex.com

steve.morrissey@united.com

__________________

Lyndsey Grunewald
Exhibit A: Air Operator Certificate
MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS AND TRANSPORT 

SUBMINISTRY OF TRANSPORT 

GENERAL DIRECTORATE OF CIVIL AERONAUTICS 

AIR CARRIER OPERATING CERTIFICATE 

AOC No. VIV/2006 

The present document certify that: 

AEROENLACES NACIONALES, S.A. DE C.V. 

Having its principal place of business at: 

TERMINAL “C”, AEROPUERTO INTERNACIONAL

“GENERAL MARIANO ESCOBEDO”

C.P. 66600, MONTERREY, N.L. 

It has fulfilled the requirements established in the Civil Aviation Law (Ley de Aviacion Civil), its regulation and effective 

corresponding Mexican Official Rules (Normas Oficiales Mezicanas) of the United Mexican States and other applicable 

dispositions, in regard to which the present certificate is issued, that authorizes to conduct air carrier operations in 

accordance with such Law, Regulation, Mexican Official Rules and other applicable dispositions, as well as pursuant the 

terms, conditions and limitations anticipated in the specifications of operation herewith attached. 

The present certificate is inalienable and, except for release of its holder, unless it is suspended or revoked or cancelled, it 

will remain effective during the indicated term of force, and in case that the conditions and requirements that served as 

base for their granting are not updated from time to time, it will lack validity. 

DIRECTOR GENERAL OF CIVIL AVIATION DIRECTOR OF AVIATION 

[SIGNATURE] [SIGNATURE] 

LIC. HECTOR GONZALES WEEKS ING. GUILLERMO A. MAGANA HERNANDEZ 

Who signs in the absence and by resolution of the Deputy Director General of 

Aviation, Mr. Gabriel Tort Flores, issued in letter No. 4.1.105.089 dated 

November 18, 2010 and in terms of the provisions of Articles 14, 16, 18 and 

relevant articles of the Organic Law of the Federal Public Administration and 

article 10, section XIV, 21 and 50 of the Rules of Procedure of the Ministry of 

Communications and Transport. 

Date of Issue: November 26, 2010 

Effective Date: November 28, 2010 

Force Date: November 28, 2012 

Any modification to the limitations or in the data of the holder of the certificate, you must be requested from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation. 

Any alteration to this certificate without prior written consent of the General Director of Civil Aviation, will be sanctioned in accordance with the law on Civil Aviation
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C.P. 66600, MONTERREY, N.L.
 

Ha cumplido con los requerimientos establecidos en la Ley de Aviaci6n Civil, su Reglamento y Normas Oficiales 

Mexicanas correspondientes vigentes de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos y dernas disposiciones aplicables, en raz6n de 

10 cual se Ie expide el presente certificado que la autoriza a realizar operaciones de transporte aereo comercial de 

conformidad con dicha L , egla nto, Normas Oficiales Mexicanas y demas disposiciones aplicabfes, asl como con 

los terrnlnos, condici es y Iimitacion s previstos en las especificaciones de operaci6n anexas al presente. 

EI presente ce . icado es intransfe Ie y, salvo renuncia de su titular, a menos que sea suspendido, revocado 0 

Fecha de vigencia: 28 - Noviembre - 2012. 

cancelado, per. anecera vigente h sta la fecha indicada, yen caso de que las condiciones y requisitos que irvieron de 

base para su torgamiento no se antengan actualizados, carecera de validez. 

E AERONAuTICA CIVIL 

L1C. HECTOR GONzALEZ WEEKS. 

Fecha de emisi6n: 26 - Noviembre - 2010., 

Fecha de Efectividad: 28 - Noviembre - 2010. 

Cualquier modificaci6n en las limitaciones 0 en los datos del titUlar del certificado, debera ser solicitado a la Direccion General de Aeronautica Civil.
 

Cualquier alteraci6n a este certificado sin consentimiento por escrito de la Dlreccion General de Aeronautica Civil, sera sancionado conforme a 10
 

establecido en la Ley~e Aviaci6n Civil.
 

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