UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

WASHINGTON, D.C.

Joint Application of America West Airlines, Inc. and Royal Jordanian
Airlines

for Approval of and Antitrust Immunity for Alliance Agreements

under 49 U.S.C. §§ 41308 and 41309 (Docket OST-2004-18613)

NOTICE ESTABLISHING PROCEDURAL DATES

On July 12, 2004, America West Airlines, Inc. (America West) and Royal
Jordanian Airlines (Royal Jordanian) filed a joint application
requesting approval of and antitrust immunity for a commercial
cooperative agreement (Exhibit JA-1), hereafter the “Alliance
Agreement”.  On July 12, the applicants filed a joint Motion under 14
C.F.R. 302.12 (Rule 12) of our regulations seeking confidential
treatment for supporting documents and information.  They state that the
material filed under the Motion is proprietary, commercially sensitive,
and confidential in nature, which qualifies for being withheld from
public disclosure.  The applicants have asked that access to this
material be limited to counsel and outside experts for interested
parties. 

We have now finished our initial review.  We find the application is now
substantially complete.  We will require that answers to the application
be filed no later than 21 calendar days from the issue date of this
Notice, and that replies be filed no later than 7 business days after
the last day for filing an answer.

We shall serve this notice on all persons on the service list for this
docket.

By:

KARAN K. BHATIA

Assistant Secretary for Aviation

and International Affairs

Date:  

(SEAL)

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

http://dms.dot.gov/search  

	Answers to the Motion were due on July 19, 2004.  The Motion is
unopposed.  

	See Motion at 3.  

     We will rule on the merits of the Rule 12 Motion by subsequent
order.  By Notice dated August 16, 2004, we granted immediate interim
access to all documents covered by the applicants’ Motion, or to any
subsequent materials that may be filed confidentially in this
proceeding, to counsel and outside experts for interested parties,
consistent with conditions agreed to by the Joint Applicants and imposed
by the Department in recent cases.  At the same time, we suspended the
procedural schedule of this case, pending a determination of
completeness.

 	We reserve the right to require the filing of additional information
deemed relevant to the proceeding at any time.

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	Served: September 17, 2004	

