Document ID: DOT-OST-2004-16945-0013
Agency: dot
Document Type: Notice
Title: Notice Providing Access to Documents
Posted Date: 2004-04-08T04:00Z

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

      DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

             OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

                  WASHINGTON, D.C.

						Served:  April 8, 2004

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Joint Application of American Airlines, Inc. and Compania Mexicana de
Aviacion, S.A. de C.V. under 14 CFR Part 212 and 49 USC 40109 for
Statements of Authorization and Related Exemption Authority
(Codesharing)

Docket OST-2004-16945

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NOTICE PROVIDING ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS

On January 21, 2004, American Airlines, Inc. and Compania Mexicana de
Aviacion, S.A. filed a joint application for statements of authorization
and related exemption authority to engage in reciprocal code-share
services pursuant to their code-share agreement.  Some portions of the
carriers’ code-share agreement were redacted.  

On April 1, 2004, the carriers supplemented their application by
submitting unredacted copies of previously redacted pages to their
agreement.  The Joint Applicants accompanied the supplement with a joint
motion for confidential treatment under 14 CFR 302.12 requesting
confidential treatment for this material. American and Mexicana ask that
access to these documents be limited to counsel and outside experts for
interested parties.

In order to afford interested parties prompt access to the documents
under conditions agreed to by the applicants and imposed by the
Department in similar circumstances, we will grant immediate interim
access to all documents covered by the Rule 12 Motions to counsel and
outside experts for interested parties who file appropriate affidavits
with the Department in advance.  Moreover, consistent with earlier
determinations, at the Dockets facility, Parties will be permitted to
make copies of the documents for use by persons who have filed
confidentiality affidavits. We also find it appropriate to grant interim
access to any subsequent materials that may be filed in this case under
a Rule 12 Motion to counsel and outside experts for interested parties
who file appropriate affidavits with the Department in advance, unless
the party filing the motion objects.

We expect all affidavits to state, at a minimum, that (1) the affiant is
counsel for an interested party or an outside independent expert
providing services to such a party; (2) the affiant will use the
information only for the purpose of participating in this proceeding;
and (3) the affiant will disclose such information only to other persons
who have filed an valid affidavit in Docket OST 2004-16945.  Affiants
and interested parties must understand and agree that any pleading or
other filing that includes or discusses information contained in the
covered documents must itself be accompanied by a Rule 12 Motion
requesting confidential treatment.  Affidavits must be filed in Docket
OST-2004-16945 with the Department of Transportation, Dockets, Room
PL-401, 400 Seventh Street, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20590.

Affiants having filed affidavits may examine the documents at the
Department of Transportation at the Dockets location.  Affiants must
present a stamped copy of the affidavit filed with the Department of
Transportation before examination of the documents.  Immediately after
the completion of any judicial review of our final decision in this
docket or the expiration of the 60-day period within which a person may
petition for judicial review, all persons who have filed confidentiality
affidavits in this proceeding are hereby directed to file a further
affidavit stating that all copies of the applicants’ confidential
materials have been destroyed or returned to the applicants.

No decision on the merits of the motion for confidential treatment has
been made.

We will serve this notice on all persons on the service in the
above-referenced docket.

By:

					KAREN K. BHATIA

					Assistant Secretary for Aviation

					   and International Affairs

(SEAL)

	

Dated:  April 8, 2004

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

  HYPERLINK "http://dms.dot.gov//reports/reports_aviation.asp" 
http://dms.dot.gov//reports/reports_aviation.asp 

 The material submitted pertains to pages 9, 10, 24, C1 and D1 of the
code-share agreement.

 Motion at 1.

 See, e.g., Notices in Dockets OST-2003-14202, served January 21, 2003,
OST-2002-11842, dated March 21, 2002, and Docket OST-2001-10429, dated
August 21, 2001.

 See, Notices in Docket OST-2003-14202, dated January 21, 2003, in
Docket OST-2002-11842, dated March 21, 2002, and in Docket
OST-2001-10387, dated September 11, 2001.