	           UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

      DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

             OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

                  WASHINGTON, D.C.

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2002/2003 Hong Kong Fifth-Freedom All-Cargo Frequency Proceeding

Docket OST-2002-14049

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								Served:  January 16, 2003

NOTICE STAYING PROCEDURAL DATES

By Order 2002-12-11, the Department instituted the 2002/2003 Hong Kong
Fifth-Freedom All-Cargo Frequency Proceeding, Docket OST-2002-14049, and
established a procedural schedule for the proceeding.  In response to a
request from a number of the applicants for additional time, the
Department extended the original procedural schedule by a Notice, served
on December 23, 2002.  Under the revised procedural schedule Direct
Exhibits are due January 28, 2003; Rebuttal Exhibits, February 14, 2003;
and Briefs, February 28, 2003.  

Various applicants in the proceeding have filed petitions and motions
whose resolution would affect the parties’ evidentiary submissions in
this proceeding.  We anticipate that the matters raised by these
petitions and motions will be resolved soon.  However, in the
circumstances presented, we have concluded that pending such resolution,
parties should not be burdened with the need to complete and submit
their evidentiary materials.  Therefore, we are staying the remaining
procedural schedule for this proceeding until further notice. 

We will serve this Notice on all parties to this proceeding by email or
facsimile.

By:

						SUSAN MCDERMOTT

				Deputy Assistant Secretary for Aviation

   and International Affairs

(SEAL)

Dated:  January 16, 2003

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

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

