National Air Carrier Association v. Civil Aeronautics Board, Trans World Airlines, Inc., Pan American World Airways (Pan American), Intervenors

McGOWAN, Circuit Judge:

On this petition for review of two orders issued by the Civil Aeronautics Board, we resume our consideration of issues foreshadowed in National Air Carrier Association, et al. v. CAB, 141 U.S. App.D.C. 31, 436 F.2d 185, which we decided on May 28,1970, less than a year ago. We referred there to the significantly more limited role which Congress has assigned the Board in supervising international air transportation rates as distinguished from domestic. We also described the consensual mechanism from which the former emerge, involving the fixing of rates by carrier…