UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 

WASHINGTON, D.C. 

DEPARTMENT ACTION ON APPLICATION IN DOCKET DOT -OST -2014-0168 

filed September 23, 2014 

Application of Air Canada rouge (AC rouge) for a blanket statement of authorization under 14 C.F.R. 

Part 212 to permit AC rouge for an indefinite duration to display the (SQ*) designator code of Singapore 

Airlines (SIA) on flights it operates on behalf of Air Canada between any point or points in Canada and 

any point or points in the United States.' AC rouge also requests a waiver of the 45-day advance filing 

requirement under 14 CFR Part 212. 

*Approved in part under assigned authority (14 C.F.R. §385. 13). 

Date of Action: October 14,2014 

Persons entitled to petition the Department for review of this action under the Department's regulations, 

14 CFR § 385.30, should file their petitions within seven days of the date of this action. This action is effective 

immediately, and the filing of a 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. 

1 Initially, AC rouge wi ll carry the SQ* code on flights it operates on behalf of Air Canada between Vancouver, Canada (YVR) on the 

one hand, and Los Angeles (LAX) and San Francisco (SFO) on the other hand. 
The code-share operations authorized here are subject to the following conditions: 

(a) The statement of authorization will remain in effect only as long as (i) AC rouge, Air Canada, and 

SIA 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) AC rouge, Air Canada, and/or SIA, as appropriate, must promptly notify the Department if the 

code-share agreement providing for the code-share operations is no longer effective or the 

carriers decide to cease operating any or all of the approved code-share services. We expect this 

notification to be received within 10 days of such non-effectiveness or of such decision. Such 

notices should be filed in docket DOT -OST -2014-0168.2 

(c) AC rouge, Air Canada, and/or SIA, as appropriate, must notify the Department no later than 30 

days before they begin any new code-share service under the code-share services authorized 

here. Such notice shall identify the market(s) to be served and the date on which the service will 

begin. Such notice should be filed in Docket DOT-OST-2014-0168.

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(d) The code-sharing operations conducted under this authority must comply with 14 CFR 257 and with 

any amendments to the Department's regulations concerning code-share 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 of the carrier holding out such service in the computer reservation systems and elsewhere; that the 

carrier selling such transportation (i.e., the carrier shown on the ticket) accept responsibility for the 

entirety of the code-share journey for all obligations established in its contract of carriage with the 

passenger; and that the passenger liability of the operating carrier be unaffected. 

(e) The authority granted here is specifically conditioned so that AC rouge, Air Canada, nor SIA shall 

not give any force or effect to any contractual provisions that are contrary to these conditions. 

(f) We may amend, modify, or revoke the authority granted at any time without hearing at our 

discretion. 

2 We expect this notification to be received within 10 days of such non-effectiveness or of such decision. 

3 AC rouge provided blanket notice of its intent to engage in code-share services displaying the SQ* code on flights it operates on 

behalf of Air Canada between all U.S. points and points in Canada.