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1986 - March DOT Ord. & Dec. [1] (March, 1986)

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Order 86-3-1


                     UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
                   DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
                     OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY                     2 1986
                         WASHINGTON, D.C.                          1986

            Issued by the Department of Transportation
                  on the 1st day of March, 1986



Application of
TEXAS AIR CORPORATION

for approval of Voting Trust       Docket 43825
pursuant to Section 408 of
the Federal Aviation Act


                              ORDER


On February 26, 1986, Texas Air Corporation (Texas Air) filed an
application for expedited approval under section 408 of the
Federal Aviation Act, 49 U.S.C. 1378, of its purchase of 10
percent or more of the voting stock of Eastern Air Lines
(Eastern) and its placement of the Eastern stock in a voting
trust.  Section 408 of the Act requires the Department's prior
approval before one carrier may acquire control of another
carrier.  Texas Air already controls two air carriers, Continental
Air Lines and New York Air, and thus may not acquire control of
Eastern without prior approval.  Section 408(f) establishes a
presumption that one carrier's acquisition of ten percent of a
second carrier's voting stock constitutes the acquisition of
control of the second carrier.

According to its application, Texas Air will hold in the voting
trust the Eastern shares it purchases in excess of ten percent of
Eastern's stock while the Department considers its application to
acquire control of Eastern through the acquisition of all of its
stock.  Texas Air represents that the terms of the voting trust
are essentially the same as those approved by the Department in
other acquisition cases.  The voting trust will require the
trustee to vote the shares in the same proportion as other Eastern
shares are voted (excluding Texas Air's shares constituting less
than ten percent of Eastern's stock held outside the voting
trust), except that Texas Air may direct the trustee to vote in
favor of its own acquisition proposal and against any other
acquisition proposal.  Texas Air has not proposed a limit on the
amount of Eastern stock it may purchase.

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