TRANSPORTATION-1964 HEARINGS BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES EIGHTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON H.R. 1716 A BILL TO AMEND SECTION 1002 OF THE FEDERAL AVIATION A BILL TO AMEND THE FEDERAL AVIATION ACT OF 1958 TO S. 1540 AN ACT TO AMEND THE FEDERAL AVIATION ACT OF 1958 TO COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE OREN HARRIS, JOHN BELL WILLIAMS, Mississippi SAMUEL N. FRIEDEL, Maryland TORBERT H. MACDONALD, Massachusetts JOHN JARMAN, Oklahoma LEO W. O'BRIEN, New York JOHN E. MOSS, California JOHN D. DINGELL, Michigan PAUL G. ROGERS, Florida HORACE R. KORNEGAY, North Carolina ALBERT W. WATSON, South Carolina 1 Arkansas, Chairman JOHN B. BENNETT, Michigan J. ARTHUR YOUNGER, California W. E. WILLIAMSON, Clerk ANDREW STEVENSON Professional Staff JAMES M. MENGER, Jr. WILLIAM J. DIXON KURT BORCHARDT 1 Appointed member of committee May 20, 1964, vice Robert W. Hemphill, South Carolina. resigned. 2 Appointed member of committee May 20, 1964, vice Dan Rostenkowski, Illinois, resigned. Commerce Department on S. 1540. Comptroller General of the United States on H. R. 6400. Federal Aviation Agency on S. 1540. Justice Department on H. R. 6400 State Department on H.R. 6400___ S. 1540 Statement of— Boyd, Hon. Alan S., Chairman, Civil Aeronautics Board.... 15, 210 149, 174, 195 Depart 149, 174, 195 Goodrich, Nathaniel H., General Counsel, Federal Aviation Agency- 47 47 149, 174, 195 Roth, Irving, Director, Bureau of Economic Regulation, Civil Aero- 15, 210 Stout, Al, Chief, Commercial Rates Section, Civil Aeronautics Board. 15, 210 59, 93, 109 Wanner, John, General Counsel, Civil Aeronautics Board.... 15, 210 15, 210 Additional information submitted for the record by Air Transport Association of America: In the matter of investigation of the terms, conditions, and Outline of power of Civil Aeronautics Board to deal with foreign 104 Statistical data and supplementary material used by Stuart G. Texts of Bermuda-type bilateral agreement alternative rate clauses_ 136-147 91 Additional information submitted for the record by-Continued Civil Aeronautics Board: Types of bilateral agreements to which United States is a party and foreign countries parties to various Commerce Department, statement of Clarence D. Martin, Jr., Under Australian-United States route exchanges.. Routes to be served by the air carriers of the French Republic__ Routes to be served by the air carriers of the United States.... Statement outlining the specific foreign countries which threatened to suspend the operations of U.S. air carriers during the North Atlantic rate dispute of May 1963... Statement regarding the chronology of events surrounding the Statement regarding the grants of certain routes to France and RATES, FARES, AND PRACTICES IN FOREIGN AIR TRANSPORTATION-1964 TUESDAY, MAY 19, 1964 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE, Washington, D.C. The committee met, pursuant to notice, at 10 a.m., in room 1334, Longworth House Office Building, Hon. Oren Harris (chairman of the committee) presiding. The CHAIRMAN. The committee will come to order. Today the committee opens hearings on several bills, H.R. 1716, which was introduced by our colleague on the committee, Mr. Williams, and H.R. 6400, introduced by me. Also a similar bill to H.R. 6400 is S. 1540, is before the committee, having passed the Senate. These two bills, that is, the Senate bill and H.R. 6400, come to us as a recommendation from the Civil Aeronautics Board. The bill introduced by Mr. Williams, I believe, is a proposal which the industry some time ago recommended since this matter was presented to the Congress in the 87th Congress. (The bills referred to, and agency reports thereon, are as follows:) [H.R. 1716, 88th Cong., 1st sess.] A BILL To amend section 1002 of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to authorize the Civil Aeronautics Board to suspend certain rates relating to foreign air transportation, and for other purposes Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) subsection (d) of section 1002 of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 (49 U.S.C. 1482) is amended (1) by amending the heading of such subsection to read as follows: "POWER TO PRESCRIBE RATES AND PRACTICES OF AIR CARRIERS IN INTERSTATE AND OVERSEAS AIR TRANSPORTATION"; and (2) by striking out ": Provided, That as to rates, fares, and charges for overseas air transportation, the Board shall determine and prescribe only a just and reasonable maximum or minimum, or maximum and minimum rate, fare, or charge". (b) The heading of subsection (e) of such section 1002 is amended to read as follows: "RULE OF RATE MAKING FOR INTERSTATE AND OVERSEAS AIR TRANSPORTATION". (c) The heading of subsection (g) of such section 1002 is amended to read as follows: "SUSPENSION OF RATES IN INTERSTATE AND OVERSEAS AIR TRANSPORTATION”. SEC. 2. Section 1002 of such Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: SUSPENSION OF RATES IN FOREIGN AIR TRANSPORTATION "(j) (1) Whenever any air carrier or foreign air carrier shall file with the Board a tariff stating a new individual or joint (between air carriers, between foreign air carriers, or between air carriers and foreign air carriers) rate, fare, or charge for foreign air transportation or any classification, rule, regulation, or |