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	           UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

   DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

           OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

                  WASHINGTON, D.C.

_______________________________

In the Matter of

U.S.-Vietnam Third-Country Code-Share Opportunity

Docket OST-2002-12496

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								Served:  June 21, 2002

NOTICE REVISING PROCEDURAL SCHEDULE

On June 13, 2002, the Department issued a Notice establishing a
procedural schedule in the above-captioned matter, whereby applications
or supplemented applications are due June 27, 2002, answers thereto are
due July 8, 2002, and replies are due July 15, 2002.

On June 17, 2002, American Airlines, Inc., Delta Air Lines, Inc.,
Northwest Airlines, Inc., and United Air Lines, Inc. (the “Movants”)
filed a joint motion to change the procedural dates in the
above-captioned matter.  

The Movants request that the answer period established by the
Department’s June 13, 2002, Notice be changed from July 8, 2002, to
July 12, 2002, and that the reply date be changed from July 15, 2002, to
July 19, 2002.  The Movants note that the present July 8 date falls on
the Monday following the long July 4 weekend and that in effect the
applicants would have only until July 3 to complete their answers absent
the extension requested.  They state that in this proceeding, the
applicants’ answers constitute their principal opportunity to
demonstrate the comparative merits of their respective proposals and
that the requested extension will facilitate the development of a
complete record for the Department’s consideration, and will not
materially delay the Department’s decision.

The Movants have requested a modest extension for the answer and reply
periods.  We believe, in the circumstances presented, that no interested
party will be harmed by grant of the requested extension.

Therefore, we shall, acting under authority assigned in 14 CFR 385.3,
require that answers in the above-captioned proceeding shall now be
filed no later than July 12, 2002, and replies shall now be filed no
later than July 19, 2002.  As noted in the Department’s June 13, 2002,
Notice, service of documents may be by facsimile and by electronic mail.

We will serve this notice by facsimile on all carriers served with the
Department’s June 13, 2002, Notice.

By:

							PAUL L. GRETCH

							Director, Office of

							  International Aviation

(SEAL)

Dated:  June 21, 2002

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

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

