	                   UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

            DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

                    OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

                             WASHINGTON, DC

                                                                        
    Served:  July 30, 2004

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2004 U.S.-Mexico Combination Service Proceeding

DOCKET OST-2004-18692

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NOTICE 

By Order 2004-7-17, July 21, 2004, we instituted the 2004 U.S.-Mexico
Combination Service Proceeding, Docket OST-2004-18692, to select one
primary and one backup carrier, to provide foreign air transportation of
persons, property, and mail over the following transborder routes:
Denver-Cancun, Denver-Puerto Vallarta, Detroit-Cancun, and St.
Louis-Cancun.  We consolidated the already-filed applications into this
proceeding.  In addition, the Order established a procedural timetable
for this case, calling for Petitions for Reconsideration, July 28;
Answers to Petitions, August 2; Direct Exhibits, August 16; Rebuttal
Exhibits, August 30; and Briefs, September 7.

On July 27, 2004, Frontier Airlines, Inc. filed a petition for
reconsideration requesting additional time on the procedural schedule. 
The carrier states that the time schedule listed in the Order involves a
time period in which carrier representatives are focusing on a variety
of planning and scheduling issues including developing winter schedules.
 In addition, they are also responding to rapidly changing industry
conditions.  Therefore, Frontier recommends that the procedural schedule
be slightly modified by extending each of the dates stated above so that
Petitions for Reconsideration, no change; Answers to Petitions, August
9; Direct Exhibits, August 23; Rebuttal Exhibits, September 7; and
Briefs, September 17.

In view of the immediate availability of the route rights, and in light
of the carrier interest to commence services on these routes as soon as
possible, and given our stated intent to process this case on an
expedited procedural schedule, we have decided not to change the
requirement that answers to petitions for reconsideration be filed as
stated above (i.e., August 2, 2004).  However, we will defer action on
the balance of the request until after receipt of answers to the
petition. 

Therefore, acting under authority assigned in 14 CFR 385.13(p), we deny
the request to modify the due date for the answers to petitions for
reconsiderations and require that answers to the petitions be filed
August 2.  We defer a decision on the balance of the request of
Frontier.

We will serve this notice by electronic mail on all parties to this
proceeding, and hereby authorize service of documents by facsimile and
by electronic mail.

By:

					PAUL L. GRETCH

Director, Office of International Aviation

(SEAL)

Dated:  July 30, 2004

An electronic version of this noticer 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 

 Order 2004-7-17, at 4.

