Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 92 Part 2.djvu/437

 PUBLIC LAW 95-504—OCT. 24, 1978 "(i) any air carrier which (I) has operated during the preceding calendar year in accordance with a certificate issued by the Board under this section which has been in force during such entire preceding calendar year, and (II) has provided air transportation of persons during such calendar year; and "(ii) any intrastate air carrier which has a valid certificate or license issued by a State regulatory authority to engage in intrastate air transportation and which has operated more than one hundred million available seat-miles in intrastate air transportation in the preceding calendar year; may apply to the Board for a certificate under this subparagraph to engage in nonstop service between any one pair of points in interstate or overseas air transportation (other than a pair of points either point of which is in the State of Hawaii) in addition to any pair of points authorized by any existing certificate or license held by such air carrier or intrastate air carrier, except that no air carrier may apply to engage in nonstop service between such pair of points if any air carrier has filed written notice to the Board pursuant to subparagraph (C) of this paragraph with respect to such pair of points. Not later than the sixtieth day after the date on which the Board receives an application from an applicant under this subparagraph, the Board shall issue a certificate to such applicant for the nonstop service specified in such application, unless within such sixty-day period the Board determines that the applicant is not fit, willing, and able to provide such nonstop service and to conform to the provisions of this Act and the rules, regulations, and requirements of the Board issued under this Act. "(B) Not later than the one-hundred-twentieth day of calendar year 1979, 1980, or 1981, any air carrier which submitted an application to the Board in accordance with subparagraph (A) of this paragraph in such calendar year and— "(i) which did not receive a certificate to provide service between the pair of points set forth in the application because of a determination by the Board nnder such subparagraph (A); or "(ii) which received a certificate to provide service between such pair of points, but was not the only air carrier to receive a certificate under such subparagraph (A) during such calendar year to provide nonstop service between such pair of points; may reapply to the Board for a certificate to engage in nonstop service between any one pair of points in interstate or overseas air transportation (other than the pair of points specified in the first application submitted to the Board by such air carrier in such calendar year and other than a pair of points either point of which is in the State of Hawaii) in addition to any pair of points authorized by any existing certificate or license held by such air carrier or intrastate aii" carrier, except that no air carrier may apply to engage in nonstop service between such pair of points if any air carrier has filed written notice to the Board pursuant to subparagraph (C) of this paragraph with respect to such pair of points. Not later than the sixtieth day after the date on which the Board receives an application under this subparagraph, the Board shall issue a certificate to the applicant for such nonstop service, unless within such sixty-day period the Board makes a determination with respect to the issuance of such certificate in accordance with the second sentence of subparagraph (A) of this paragraph. If the Board issues a certificate to an applicant under this subparagraph, it shall revoke any authority in any certificate which it granted to such applicant in the same calendar year under subparagraph (A) of this paragraph.

92 STAT. 1717

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