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1977 - December DOT Ord. & Dec. [1] (December, 1977)

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Order 77-12-1


                            UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
                            CIVIL AERONAUTICS BOARD
                               WASHINGTON, D. C.

                     Adopted by the Civil Aeronautics Board
                       at its office in Washington, D. C.
                         on the 18th day of November, 1977


Transatlantic super-APEX fares
proposed by
                                                     Docket 31711
     AIR CANADA


                      ORDER OF INVESTIGATION AND SUSPENSION

     The Board has been following a policy of suspending transatlantic super-
APEX fares (Orders 77-10-124 and 77-10-139) in cases where negotiation of
special intergovernmental agreements are necessary to permit suspension of the
fares after they become effective. 1/ Air Canada has filed tariff revisions,
for effect December 3, 1977, to introduce super-APEX fares between New York
and points in Europe. 2/ The United States has not yet secured agreements
with Canada or with other affected governments which would permit us to suspend
the super-APEX fares once they become effective. In these circumstances, the
Board finds that Air Canada's proposed super-APEX fares may be unjust,
unreasonable, unjustly discriminatory, unduly preferential, unduly prejudicial,
or otherwise unlawful and should be investigated and, pending investigation,
should be suspended. Upon conclusion of suitable ad hoc agreements with
Canada and other affected countries, the suspension will be vacated.


1/ On September 16, 1977, the Board adopted an order suspending, pending
    investigation, super-APEX (advance-purchase excursion) fares proposed by
    several carriers in the New York-London market. The order was submitted
    to the President pursuant to section 801 of the Federal Aviation Act and,
    by letter dated September 26, 1977, the President notified the Board that
    he was disapproving its proposed suspension for reasons of foreign economic
    policy.
       The Board had proposed suspension of the super-APEX fares based on its
    view that they would have a predatory impact on charter services, whether
    or not so intended. In his letter, the President stated that, if the Board
    obtained new evidence after the fares became effective that they were indeed
    predatory, he would consider a suspension under terms of the ad hoc
    agreement negotiated on September 19, 1977, with the United Kingdom. The
    ad hoc agreement gives either party the right to suspend the super-APEX
    fares on six weeks' notice, and was necessary since the terms of some
    bilateral air transport agreements do not provide for suspension of tariffs
    already in effect.
2/ The fares match super-APEX fares filed by other transatlantic carriers from
    New York to various points in Europe.

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