	           UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

      DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

             OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

                  WASHINGTON, D.C.



						Served:  April 27, 2004

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Notice Extending 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.  On April 19, we shortened the
answer period for this application to

April 22, 2004.

On April 22, 2004, Federal Express (FedEx) filed a motion for extension
of time to comment on the UPS application until April 30, 2004.   FedEx
states that it is considering whether it may be interested in one or
more of the limited frequencies in the subject UPS application.  FedEx
also requested that the Department grant its previous Joint Motion for
allocation (filed with Northwest and Polar) and that the UPS application
not delay ruling on the Joint Motion.  

On April 23, 2004, UPS filed an answer to the motion for extension of
time, noting that no carrier other than FedEx had filed a response to
the UPS application and no carrier had objected to the UPS application. 
UPS requests that its application (as well as the Joint Motion of FedEx,
Northwest, and Polar for Hong Kong-Korea frequencies) be ruled on
favorably by the Department.

In the circumstances presented and in order to have a complete record of
positions on the subject application, we have decided to grant the FedEx
motion for extension of the answer period and to reinstate April 30,
2004, as the answer period for the subject application.  

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We will serve this notice by email or facsimile to FedEx, Northwest,
Polar, and UPS, and we authorize comments to be served by facsimile or
email.

By:

						PAUL L. GRETCH

			Director, Office of International Aviation

(SEAL)

Dated: April 27, 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  

 FedEx polled persons served with the Motion and received concurrence
from Northwest and Polar as well as an indication from UPS that it would
not require the full answer period to file an answer to the Motion.

Under our regulations, this means that replies to any answer filed will
be due May 11, 2004.

