Air Serbia (JU, Belgrade) has seen its application to codeshare with Etihad Airways (EY, Abu Dhabi International) on the latter's flights to the United States rejected by the US Department of Transportation. Plaintiffs in the filing, which included the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), opposed Air Serbia’s application on the grounds that Etihad's 49% stake in the carrier would allow the Emirati carrier to control its operations thereby violating the standard US requirement that foreign airlines serving the United States be owned and controlled by the airline’s country or that country’s citizens. In its ruling, the DoT agreed finding that Air Serbia had responded to ALPA's and other interested parties' specific allegations about potential foreign control with “generalities” that did not refute the allegations. The Department also denied Air Serbia’s request for a waiver of DoT’s ownership and control policies on the grounds that the waiver would not be “inimical to U.S. policy or interests.”