Document ID: DOT-OST-2006-25517-0004
Agency: dot
Document Type: Notice
Title: Notice Shortening Answer Period
Posted Date: 2006-08-09T04:00Z

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

                    DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

                            OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

                                       WASHINGTON, DC

                                                                        
                           Served:  August 9, 2006

NOTICE SHORTENING ANSWER PERIOD 

On July 28, 2006, Delta Air Lines, Inc. (Delta) and United Air Lines,
Inc. (United) filed a joint application for transfer from United to
Delta of the route segment on United’s certificate of public
convenience and necessity authorizing foreign air transportation of
persons, property and mail between New York, New York, and London,
United Kingdom.  According to the joint application, Delta seeks to
obtain all of the required governmental authorizations in order to
initiate New York-London service in the November 15-December 1, 2006
timeframe.  

On July 28, the joint applicants also filed a joint motion in the
above-captioned Docket requesting an expedited procedural schedule and
expedited consideration and approval with respect to their application
for certificate transfer.  Under the Department’s regulations (14 CFR
302.204), answers to the joint certificate transfer application would
normally be due August 18, 2006, and replies would be due August 25,
2006.  The joint applicants request that the answer date be shortened to
August 7 with replies due August 14.  We received an answer to the joint
motion from Frontier Airlines, Inc. (Frontier), which did not object to
a shortened answer period for answers and replies.

In the circumstances presented, we have decided to grant the joint
applicants’ request for a shortened answer period.  However, in the
interest of providing interested parties adequate notice of our
decision, we are somewhat modifying the shortened answer and reply dates
from those requested by the joint applicants in their motion. 
Therefore, acting under authority assigned in 14 CFR 385.13(p), answers
to the Delta/United joint application for certificate transfer of New
York-London route authority will now be due no later than Friday, August
11, 2006, with replies due no later than Friday, August 18, 2006.  

We will serve this notice by electronic mail on all parties served with
the Delta/United joint application, and hereby authorize service of
documents by facsimile and by electronic mail.

By:

						PAUL L. GRETCH

						Director, Office of International Aviation

(SEAL)

Dated:  August 9, 2006

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 

  In their motion, the joint applicants further urge the Department to
expedite consideration of their joint application, and to issue an Order
to Show Cause on or before September 15, 2006, and a Final Order on or
before October 2, 2006.  This Notice addresses only the date for answers
and replies to the joint application.  We will address the balance of
the procedural schedule subsequently. 

  In its answer, Frontier stated that the Department should not
accelerate issuance of a final order on the joint application before it
issues orders for other applications submitted earlier than the
Delta/United request.  Because this Notice shortens only the date for
answers and replies to the joint application, we do not reach
Frontier’s concerns here.

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Joint Application of Delta Air Lines, Inc. and United Air Lines, Inc.
for Certificate Transfer (New York-London Authority)

Docket OST-2006-25517