	           UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

      DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

             OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

                  WASHINGTON, D.C.



						Served:  April 19, 2004

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Notice Shortening Answer Period

Docket OST-2004-17279

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On April 15, 2004, United Parcel Service Co. (UPS) filed in the
captioned docket an application for three weekly all-cargo Hong Kong
fifth-freedom frequencies made available effective October 26, 2004, by
the 2002 Memorandum of Understanding between the United States and Hong
Kong.  UPS states that it will use two of the frequencies in the Hong
Kong-Bangkok market and one in the Hong Kong-Singapore market in October
2004.

Under the Department’s regulations (14 CFR 302.307), answers to this
application would be due April 30, 2004.  In order to be in a position
to act on the application expeditiously, we have decided to shorten the
comment period and to request comments on the UPS application by
Thursday, April 22, 2004.  We request reply comments by Friday, April
23, 2004.

We will serve this notice by email or facsimile to all parties in Docket
OST-2004-17279, and we authorize comments to be served by facsimile or
email.

						PAUL L. GRETCH

			Director, Office of International Aviation

(SEAL)

Dated:  April 19, 2004

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 

 We note that UPS filed a motion for immediate allocation of six
frequencies for Hong Kong-Singapore-Macapagal on March 29, 2004, and in
that motion requested to withdraw from the remainder of the proceeding. 
By Notice of Action Taken, dated March 31, 2004, we acted on that
motion, granting UPS’ requests.

