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### BEFORE THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

WASHINGTON, D.C.

Joint Application of ) ) A IR 

### TAHITI 

### N UI 

### ) S OCIÉTÉ 

### A IR 

### F RANCE 

### ) D ELTA 

### AIR 

### L INES 

### , I NC 

### . ) KONINKLIJKE 

### L UCHTVAART 

### M AATSCHAPPIJ 

### N.V. ) D OCKET 

### DOT-OST-2013-0077 A LITALIA

### -C OMPAGNIA 

### A EREA 

### I TALIANA 

### S. P 

### .A. ) ) Under 49 U.S.C. §§ 41308 and 41309 ) for approval of and antitrust immunity ) for alliance agreements )

JOINT APPLICANTS’ MOTION TO DISMISS

April 18, 2014\\DC - 033583/000001 - 5581009 v1

Communications with respect to this document should be sent to: Evelyn D. Sahr Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC 1717 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW 12 th Floor Washington, D.C. 20006 Phone: +1 202 659 6622 Fax: +1 202 659 6699 esahr@eckertseamans.com Counsel for AIR TAHITI NUI Alexander Van der Bellen, Managing Director, Regulatory and International Affairs and Associate General Counsel DELTA AIR LINES, INC. 1212 New York Avenue, NW Suite 200 Washington, DC 20005 Phone: +1 202 842 4184 sascha.vanderbellen@delta.com Rita Ciccone General Counsel & Vice President Legal and Corporate Affairs ALITALIA-COMPAGNIA AEREA ITALIANA S.p.A. Piazza Almerico da Schio. Pal RPU 00054 Fiumicino (Roma), Italy Phone: +39 06 65635136 ciccone.rita@alitalia.it
Richard D. Mathias Zuckert, Scoutt & Rasenberger, L.L.P. 888 Seventeenth Street, NW, Suite 600 Washington, DC 20006-3309 Phone: +1 202 973 7917 Fax: +1 202 342 0683 rdmathias@zsrlaw.com Counsel for ALITALIA-COMPAGNIA AEREA ITALIANA S.p.A. Robert E. Cohn Patrick R. Rizzi Hogan Lovells US LLP 555 Thirteenth Street, NW Washington, DC 20004 Phone: +1 202 637 4999/5659 Fax: +1 202 637 5910 robert.cohn@hoganlovells.com patrick.rizzi@hoganlovells.com Counsel for SOCIÉTÉ AIR FRANCE and KONINKLIJKE LUCHTVAART MAATSCHAPPIJ N.V. Laurent Timsit, Senior Vice President International & Regulatory Affairs SOCIÉTÉ AIR FRANCE 45, rue de Paris F-95747, Roissy CDG Cedex Paris, France\\DC - 033583/000001 - 5581009 v1 

### BEFORE THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

WASHINGTON, D.C.

Joint Application of ) ) AIR 

### TAHITI 

### N UI 

### ) S OCIÉTÉ 

### AIR 

### F RANCE 

### ) D ELTA 

### AIR 

### L INES 

### , I NC 

### . ) KONINKLIJKE 

### L UCHTVAART 

### M AATSCHAPPIJ 

### N.V. ) D OCKET 

### DOT-OST-2013-0077 A LITALIA

### -C OMPAGNIA 

### A EREA 

### I TALIANA 

### S. P 

### .A. ) ) ) A PRIL 

### 18, 2014 Under 49 U.S.C. §§ 41308 and 41309 ) for approval of and antitrust immunity ) for alliance agreements )

JOINT APPLICANTS’ MOTION TO DISMISS Air Tahiti Nui (“Air Tahiti Nui”), Société Air France (“Air France”), Delta AirLines, Inc. (“Delta”), Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (“KLM”), and AlitaliaCompagnia Aerea Italiana S.p.A. (“Alitalia”) (collectively, the “Joint Applicants”) hereby move to dismiss the Joint Application. The Joint Applicants are disappointed by the Department’s tentative decision in Order 2014-3-17 to deny the request for antitrust immunity. The Joint Applicants have decided to withdraw their request for approval of and antitrust immunity for the Alliance Agreements. Accordingly, the Joint Applicants move for dismissal, without prejudice, of their application under 49 U.S.C. §§ 41308 and 41309.\\DC - 033583/000001 - 5581009 v3 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I hereby certify that a copy of the foregoing Joint Applicants’ Motion has been served this 18 th April 2014, upon the following addresses:



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