Cat-fight over US --> Brazil rights
Sep 24, 1999, 4:51 pm
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Cat-fight over US --> Brazil rights
Delta Air Lines Asks Dot to Revoke Continental
Authority For Brazil Service
ATLANTA, Sept. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL - news) yesterday filed a petition with the U.S.
Department of Transportation to immediately revoke Continental Airlines' authority to operate Houston-Sao Paulo, Brazil service
and award the Brazil frequencies to Delta.
Delta is basing its request to DOT of the fact that Continental materially breached its 1998 service proposal by failing to implement
daily, nonstop service between Houston and Sao Paulo. Continental is proposing four-times- per-week service. Continental was
awarded the Houston-Sao Paulo route in a carrier selection case last year conducted by the DOT.
According to the Delta filing, this change ``totally undermines the evidentiary presentation it (Continental) submitted in the route
case and the public interest bases on which the Department made its award to Continental in lieu of Delta.''
At the time Continental was awarded the Houston-Sao Paulo route, Delta received backup authority that would be implemented if
Continental did not live up to its service commitment. Delta is now requesting the DOT to activate that authority and allow it to
begin daily New York (JFK)-Sao Paulo service.
Delta states, ``Continental's announced (four day) service squanders 43 percent of frequencies available under the U.S.-Brazil
bilateral. Continental's less than daily service provides significantly inferior public benefits compared to Delta's planned daily
service.''
Daily service to Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro from New York (JFK), where Delta offers the most nonstop transatlantic service
of any airline, would provide a myriad of new competitive on-line service options for business and leisure travelers and freight
forwarders.
Delta, named Airline of the Year by Air Transport World magazine and ``Best-Managed Major Airline'' for 1999 by Aviation
Week & Space Technology magazine, is the world's most flown carrier. More than 105 million passengers traveled on Delta in
1998. Delta, Delta Express, the Delta Shuttle, the Delta Connection carriers and Delta's Worldwide Partners operate 5,370 flights
each day to 352 cities in 59 countries.
Authority For Brazil Service
ATLANTA, Sept. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL - news) yesterday filed a petition with the U.S.
Department of Transportation to immediately revoke Continental Airlines' authority to operate Houston-Sao Paulo, Brazil service
and award the Brazil frequencies to Delta.
Delta is basing its request to DOT of the fact that Continental materially breached its 1998 service proposal by failing to implement
daily, nonstop service between Houston and Sao Paulo. Continental is proposing four-times- per-week service. Continental was
awarded the Houston-Sao Paulo route in a carrier selection case last year conducted by the DOT.
According to the Delta filing, this change ``totally undermines the evidentiary presentation it (Continental) submitted in the route
case and the public interest bases on which the Department made its award to Continental in lieu of Delta.''
At the time Continental was awarded the Houston-Sao Paulo route, Delta received backup authority that would be implemented if
Continental did not live up to its service commitment. Delta is now requesting the DOT to activate that authority and allow it to
begin daily New York (JFK)-Sao Paulo service.
Delta states, ``Continental's announced (four day) service squanders 43 percent of frequencies available under the U.S.-Brazil
bilateral. Continental's less than daily service provides significantly inferior public benefits compared to Delta's planned daily
service.''
Daily service to Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro from New York (JFK), where Delta offers the most nonstop transatlantic service
of any airline, would provide a myriad of new competitive on-line service options for business and leisure travelers and freight
forwarders.
Delta, named Airline of the Year by Air Transport World magazine and ``Best-Managed Major Airline'' for 1999 by Aviation
Week & Space Technology magazine, is the world's most flown carrier. More than 105 million passengers traveled on Delta in
1998. Delta, Delta Express, the Delta Shuttle, the Delta Connection carriers and Delta's Worldwide Partners operate 5,370 flights
each day to 352 cities in 59 countries.
Sep 24, 1999, 6:17 pm
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Delta tried this when CO was planning to not use their EWR-RIO rights (and make GIG service an extension of SAO bound flights). This forced CO into providing n/s service from EWR to RIO.
I'm not sure that the DOT will really find DL's argument appealing. Three US Flag carriers currently provide service from NYC to SAO, plus RG, VP, and now JL. If DL were petitioning for rights from LAX, which has no US Flag service to SAO, the story might be more appealing.
I'm not sure that the DOT will really find DL's argument appealing. Three US Flag carriers currently provide service from NYC to SAO, plus RG, VP, and now JL. If DL were petitioning for rights from LAX, which has no US Flag service to SAO, the story might be more appealing.