THE

Wicks

Group

733 lOth Street, NW, Suite 3002

Washington, DC 2000 1

Washington, DC

July 16, 2014

U.S. Department of Transportation

Docket Section

Docket CST 1998-3305

1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE

Washington, DC 20590

Re: Silk way WestAirlines ProceduresPursuant to 14 C.RR.*243

Enclosed please find Silk Way West Airlines' Procedures pursuant to 14 CFR Part 243.

A copy of same document containing the 24-hour contact information is submitted in the

referenced Docket separately, as a confidential submission.

Please contact the undersigned if you have any questions or comments with respect to the

enclosed document.

Respectfully Submitted,

Glenn P. Wicks

Counsel for Silk way West Airlines

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Ekaterina A. Grimes

Consultant for Silk Way West

Airlines

Enclosures
U.S. Department of Transportation

Docket 1998-3305

SUMMARY OF SILK WAYWEST AIRLINES PROCEDURES

IN COMPLIANCE WITH 14 CFR PART 243

PASSENGER MANIFEST INFORMATION

(U.S. CITIZEN PASSENGERS ON PASSENGER-CARRYING SEGMENTS

OPERATING TO/FROM THE UNITED STATES)

In compliance with 14 CFR Part 243 issued by the U.S. Department of

Transportation on February 18, 1998, ensuring that the U.S. Government has

prompt and adequate information about U.S. citizen passengers traveling on

covered flight segments operating to/from the United States in case of an aviation

disaster occurring on such flight segments, Silk Way West Airlines ("Carrier") shall,

prior to operation ofits inaugural flight to the United States, initiate the following

passenger manifest procedures:

1. Information Gathering

• The full name (first, middle, family) of each covered passenger (including every

person on board the plane, except the crew working on that particular flight),

defined as each passenger traveling on a flight segment to/from the United

States who is a U.S. citizen, shall be collected at check.in and boarding and

included in the standard Carrier passenger manifest. U.S. citizen passengers for

whom this information is not obtained shall not be boarded.

• Emergency notification information shall besolicited or caused to be solicited of

each covered passenger (including every person on board the plane, except the

crew working on that particular flight) traveling on a flight segment to/from the

United States who is a U.S. citizen, and included as an additional section to the

standard Carrier passenger manifest, and/or attached to the manifest in the

form of Emergency Notification Information Cards filled out by each such

passenger.
2. Information Processing

• The information shall be kept until all covered passengers have disembarked

from the covered flight segment.

• The Emergency Notification Information collected shall be kept strictly

confidential, shall be released only to the U.S. Department of State, the National

Transportation Safety Board (upon request), the U.S. Department of

Transportation, and other governments or governmental agencies that have a

legal right to obtain it. The information shall not be used for commercial or

marketing purposes.

• In the event of an aviation disaster involving a covered flight segment, Carrier

shall notify the Department of State (.Managing Director of Overseas Citizen

Services, Bureau of Consular Affairs) through the Department of State

Operations Center at: 202-647-1512, immediately upon learning of such disaster.

The collected information about U.S. citizen passengers shall be transmitted to

the Department of State as quickly as possible but no later than within 3 hours

after the Carrier learns of an aviation disaster involving a covered flight

segment and notifies the Department of State of such an accident.

3. Silk Way West Airlines Contact

[SUBMITTED IN A SEPARATE CONFIDENTIAL SUBMISSION]