Document ID: DOT-OST-2002-12688-0006
Agency: dot
Document Type: Notice
Title: Notice Establishing Procedural Dates
Posted Date: 2002-07-29T04:00Z

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

WASHINGTON, D.C.

Served: July 29, 2002

Joint Application of American Airlines, Inc. and Swiss International Air
Lines Ltd.

for Approval of and Antitrust Immunity for Alliance Agreement

under 49 U.S.C. §§ 41308 and 41309 (Docket OST-2002-12688)

NOTICE ESTABLISHING PROCEDURAL DATES

On June 28, 2002, American Airlines and its affiliates and Swiss
International Air Lines Ltd. filed a joint application requesting
approval of and antitrust immunity for (1) a cooperative agreement
(Exhibit JA-1), and (2) all agreements among the applicants that
implement any part of the cooperative agreement or are entered into by
the applicants under the cooperative agreement (hereafter the
“Alliance Agreement”).  On June 28, the applicants filed a joint
Motion under 14 C.F.R. 302.12 (Rule 12) of our regulations seeking
confidential treatment for supporting documents and information.  On
July 2, American Airlines, Inc. filed a supplementary Motion under 14
C.F.R. 302.12 (Rule 12) of our regulations seeking confidential
treatment for additional documents and information.  Both Motions state
that this material is proprietary, commercially sensitive, and
confidential in nature which qualifies for being withheld from public
disclosure.  The applicants ask that access to this material be limited
to counsel and outside experts for interested parties. 

We have now finished our initial review.  We find the application is now
substantially complete.  We will require that answers to the application
be filed no later than 21 calendar days from the issue date of this
Notice, and that replies be filed no later than 7 business days after
the last day for filing an answer.

We shall serve this notice on all persons on the service list for this
docket.

By:

READ C. VAN DE WATER

Assistant Secretary for Aviation

and International Affairs

(SEAL)

An electronic version of this document is available on the World Wide
Web at:

http://dms.dot.gov/search

 	Specifically, TWA Airlines LLC; American Eagle Airlines, Inc.; and
Executive Airlines, Inc. d/b/a American Eagle.

 	Answers to the Motion were due on July 10.  The Motion is unopposed.

 	See Joint Motions at 1.

 	We will rule on the merits of the Rule 12 Motion by subsequent order. 
By Notice dated July 10, we granted immediate interim access to all
documents covered by the applicants’ Motion, or to any subsequent
materials that may be filed confidentially in this proceeding, to
counsel and outside experts for interested parties, consistent with
conditions agreed to by the Joint Applicants and imposed by the
Department in similar recent cases.  At the same time, we suspended the
procedural schedule of this case, pending a determination of
completeness.

 	We reserve the right to require the filing of additional information
deemed relevant to the proceeding at any time.

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