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OST-97-2767

Rural Air Fare Study (Data Requirements)

Order 97-7-27 | OST-97-2767 | July 28, 1997

Order Requiring Data

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We also need to obtain data for passengers whose reservations/tickets are issued by the carrier's own reservation system rather than through a CRS accessible to travel agents and other outside parties. Some carriers utilize CRS's as hosts for their internal reservation systems. Others utilize free-standing reservation/ticketing systems. Those carriers that utilize CRS's as hosts may either submit the data directly to our contractor (in a TCN format) or may submit it through their CRS and then ATPCO in the same manner that data for reservations/ tickets will be submitted for passengers booked outside the carrier's internal reservation system. Our contractor will have to work individually with carriers that do not utilize a CRS for their internal reservation system to develop a procedure and format for their submission of data. In either case, carriers are responsible for ensuring that data for their internal systems are provided to complement the data from the normal CRS data.

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By: Charles Hunnicutt

Rural Air Fare Study (Data Requirements)

OST-97-2767 | August 14, 1997 (Released August 15, 1997)

Motion for Confidentiality of Trans World Airlines

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By Order 97-7-27, the Department has required all airlines to provide Ticket Control Number (TCN) data to the Department for use in the Rural Air Fare Study. The data will be collected from each carrier's CRS, and provided to a consultant for the Department by Airline Tariff Publishing Co. (ATPCO). In its order, the Department indicated that it would maintain all TCN data on a confidential basis if a carrier so moved, except for five specific data elements. TWA hereby moves, pursuant to the order, that all data in its TCN records other than those data elements be kept confidential by the Department.

Exhibit – ATPCO Ticket Exchange System – System Specification and Implementation Guide

Counsel: TWA and Richard Fahy, 202-457-4764

Rural Air Fare Study

OST-97-2767 | August 25, 1997

Answer of Continental Airlines

As TWA has shown, the TCN records required by Order 97-7-27 contain highly confidential data elements which should be withheld from public disclosure under the standards of Rule 39 and the Freedom of Information Act. The Department has already said in Order 97-7-27 that it intends to grant confidential treatment to all data other than origin, destination, connecting points, carrier and fare data. (Order 97-7-27 at 3) To avoid the waste of time and resources occasioned by considering separate Rule 39 motions by all entities listed on Appendix A of Order 97-7-27, the Department should grant blanket confidential treatment to all when it acts on TWA's Rule 39 motion.

Counsel: Crowell Moring, Lorraine Halloway, 202 624 2500

Rural Air Fare Study (Date Requirements)

OST-97-2767 | August 27, 1997

Motion for Leave to File and Consolidated Response of Northwest Airlines

Northwest Airlines, Inc. ("Northwest") hereby strongly supports the requests by Trans World Airlines, Inc. ("TWA") and Continental Airlines, Inc. ("Continental") for blanket confidentiality to all entities listed in Appendix A of Order 977-27 with respect to the Ticket Control Number ("TCN") data covered by that Order other than origin, destination, connecting points, carrier and fare data.

Counsel: Northwest, Megan Rae Poldy, 202-842-3193

Rural Air Fare Study

OST-97-2767 | September 8, 1997

Motion of United Air Lines, Inc. to Withhold Information from Public Disclosure

The Department has ordered United to provide certain data relating to domestic passengers as part of the Rural Air Fare Study. Order 97-7-27. The data being requested are broader than those now reported pursuant to the Department's O&D Survey. The Department has directed that requests for confidential treatment of this data must be made pursuant to 14 C. F. R. 302.39.

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Counsel: Ginsburg Feldman, Joel Burton, 202 637 9130

Rural Air Fare Study (Data Requirements For)

OST-97-2767 | September 12, 1997

Motion of American Airlines for Confidential Treatment

The following data to be provided by American contains proprietary information, and we ask that it be withheld from public disclosure: data elements 21 (date of issue); 17 (ticketing agent/sales outlet number); and 73, 89, 105, and 121 (ticketing class of service).

Counsel: American, Carl Nelson, 202-496-5647, carl_nelson@amrcorp.com

Rural Air Fare Study - Data Requirements For

Order 97-10-9 | OST-97-2767 | Issued October 9, 1997 | Served October 10, 1997

Order on Confidentiality

We have decided to grant confidential treatment to all TCN record fields that may be submitted by carriers or CRS's in response to our requirements in Order 97-7-27 other than the origin, destination, intermediate points, carrier and fare. The information covered by this confidential treatment decision is financial or commercial in nature and will be obtained from persons outside the government. We further find that disclosure of the information is likely to cause substantial harm to the competitive position of the persons from whom the information will be obtained and that the information is not usually released to the public.9 This information is closely held by the parties to protect their business interests and could be used by others for sensitive competitive and marketing purposes.

TCN Items that ATPCO Would Submit | Service List

By: Charles Hunnicutt

Rural Air Fare Study - Data Requirements For

OST-97-2767 | November 3, 1997

Motion of Southwest Airlines for Confidential Treatment

Southwest Airlines Co. (Southwest) is filing this motion in order to ensure that the confidentiality of proprietary data that Southwest is submitting in connection with the Department's Rural Air Fare Study is protected. By Order 97-2-27, the Department ordered all U.S. airlines to submit traffic and fare data with respect to their domestic passengers. That order noted that one way that carriers could comply with the data requirement would be to transmit Ticket Control Number (TCN) data which contained the required information. Order 97-2-27 also left open the possibility, however, that the required data could be submitted in a format or process other than TCN "in order to allow for greater accommodation to individual carrier circumstances and to minimize the cost and effort required." Order 97-2-27 at n. 11. Southwest does not generate TCN data, and accordingly it has arranged with the Department's contractor in this proceeding to supply the required data in an alternate, non-TCN format and process.

Counsel: Southwest and Galland Kharasch, Robert Kneisley, 202-342-6760

Rural Air Fare Study

Order 98-12-18 OST-97-2767	Issued December 15, 1998 Served December 17, 1998	Order Concluding The Collection of Data	Data Requirements for Rural Air Fare Study
		Appendix A: Carriers that Participated in the Collection

We have now determined that, as of December 1, 1998, an adequate amount of data has been collected. By this order, we are notifying all airlines and CRS's in Appendix A that we are concluding the data collection and relieving the participants of the requirements to continue to submit data as prescribed in Order 97-7-27.

By: Charles Hunnicutt