 

			  DELTA STATES OF AMERICA

		        DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

			  OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

			          WASHINGTON, D.C.

	Issued by the Department of Transportation on August 22, 2002

NOTICE OF ACTION TAKEN -- DOCKETS OST-2001-10354 & 2000-6939

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This serves as notice to the public of the action described below, taken
by the Department official indicated (no 

additional confirming order will be issued in this matter).

Joint Motion:  Brit Air & Delta Air Lines, Inc.					Date Filed:  August
12, 2002

Relief requested:  Amend Notice of Action Taken dated August 2, 2002
(NOAT), in the above-referenced dockets, to recognize that Brit Air is a
wholly-owned subsidiary of Air France, and delete footnote 1 of that
NOAT.   The joint movants state that Brit Air has been a wholly-owned
(100%) Air France subsidiary since no later than September 30, 2001, and
they have submitted supporting information to this effect.

Applicant representatives:  Michael Goldman (Brit Air)  202-944-3305;  
Robert Cohn (Delta)  202-663-8060

Responsive pleadings:  None

	DISPOSITION

Action:  We grant the motion.								Action date:  August 22, 2002

Remarks:  The information provided in the joint Brit Air/Delta motion
supplements the record on which we had acted in our August 2 Notice by
demonstrating that Brit Air is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Air France. 
Based on this information, we amend the Notice of Action Taken dated
August 2, 2002, in Dockets OST-2001-10354 and OST-2000-6939, by deleting
footnote 1 of that Notice.  

Action taken by:   Paul L. Gretch, Director	

		      Office of International Aviation	

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Under authority assigned by the Department in its regulations, 14 CFR
Part 385.

Persons entitled to petition the Department for review of the action set
forth in this Notice under the Department’s regulations, 14 CFR
§385.30, may file their petitions within seven (7) days after the date
of issuance of this Notice.  This action was effective when taken, and
the filing of a petition for review will not alter such effectiveness.

An electronic version of this document 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 

  Based on the record then before us, the footnote in question had
stated that Brit Air was not a wholly-owned subsidiary of Air France.

  This means that Brit Air comes within the purview of Order 2002-1-6,
which granted antitrust immunity for, inter alia, wholly-owned
subsidiaries of Air France.  In this connection, we will add the
standard condition, which we routinely impose in such circumstances as
this, to those already included in the August 2, 2002, Notice:  

	All operations conducted under the August 2, 2002, authorization must
comply with the terms, conditions, and 

	limitations of Order 2002-1-6 (Delta/Delta Connection, Air France,
Alitalia and Czech Airlines antitrust 

	immunity order) and any subsequent order(s) of the Department regarding
the alliance.

