Civil Aeronautics Board v. Delta Air Lines, Inc.

This is an airline route proceeding brought before the Civil Aeronautics Board. The case involves the effect upon the proceeding, and hence upon a certificate of convenience and necessity ordered to be issued therein, of a timely motion for reconsideration.

*335Specifically, the question presented is whether, in the light of the provisions of §§ 401 (f) and 401 (g) of the Federal Aviation Act,1 the Board, by allowing its certificate to become “effective,” notwithstanding a timely filed and unruled motion for reconsideration, lost all power to grant the motion and accordingly to modify its order…