Public Law 84–38

That section 401 (e) of the Civil Aeronautics Aet of 1938, as amended (49 U. S. C. 487 (e); 52 Stat. 987), is amended by adding at the end thereof the following:

“(3)“(3)

If any applicant who makes application for a certificate within

Public convenience certificates.

one hundred and twenty days after the date of enactment of this paragraph shall show that, from January 1, 1953, to the date of its application, it or its predecessor in interest, was an air carrier furnishing, within the continental limits of the United States, local or feeder service consisting of the carriage of persons, property, and mail, under a temporary certificate of public convenience and necessity issued by the Civil Aeronautics Board, continuously operating as such (except as to interruptions of service over which the applicant or its predecessors in interest have no control) the Board, upon proof of such fact only, shall, unless the service rendered by such applicant during the period since its last certification has been inadequate and inefficient, issue a certificate or certificates of unlimited duration, authorizing such applicant to engage in air transportation between the terminal and intermediate points within the continental limits of the United States between which it, or its predecessor, so continuously operated between the date of enactment of this paragraph and the date of its application: Provided, That the Board in issuing the certificate is empowered to limit the duration of the certificate ns to not over one-half of the intermediate points named therein, which points it finds have generated insufficient traffic to warrant a finding that the public convenience and necessity requires permanent certification at such time.”

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