Document ID: DOT-OST-2003-14202-0007
Agency: dot
Document Type: Notice
Title: Notice Establishing Procedural Dates
Posted Date: 2003-03-05T05:00Z

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA  

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION  

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY  

WASHINGTON, D.C.  

Joint Application of Asiana Airlines, Inc. and United Air Lines, Inc. 

for Approval of and Antitrust Immunity for an Alliance Agreement

under 49 U.S.C. §§ 41308 and 41309 (Docket OST-2003-14202)

NOTICE ESTABLISHING PROCEDURAL DATES  

On January 3, 2003, Asiana Airlines, Inc. (“Asiana”), United Air
Lines, Inc. (“United”) and their respective affiliates filed jointly
for approval of and antitrust immunity for an Alliance Expansion
Agreement, together with exhibits.  Concurrently, Asiana and United each
filed supplementary material supporting the application and motions
under 14 C.F.R. 302.12 (Rule 12) seeking confidential treatment.  On
February 26, United filed additional documents and a motion for
confidential treatment.  The parties maintain that these documents are
proprietary, commercially sensitive, and confidential in nature that
qualifies them for being withheld from public disclosure.  They have
asked that access to this material be limited to counsel and outside
experts for interested parties.  

We have now finished our initial review.  We find that 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  

and International Affairs  

Date: March 5, 2003 

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

http://dms.dot.gov/search  

	As more fully identified in the notice served on January 21, 2003, at
1 n.1.  

	On January 21, the parties filed a supplement to their application.  

	These motions are unopposed.  

	Answers are due on March 7.  

	See motions at 3.  We will rule on the merits of these motions by
subsequent order.  By notice dated January 21, we granted immediate
interim access to all documents covered by the motions, 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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Served: March 5, 2003