The Austrian Group / British Midland Airways Limited / Deutsche Lufthansa AG / Polskie Linie Lotnicze LOT S.A. / Scandinavian Airlines System / Swiss International Air Lines Ltd. / TAP Air Portugal / United Air Lines, Inc. and United Air Lines, Inc. and Air Canada

Order 2006-4-25
OST-2005-22922 - Approval of and Antitrust Immunity for Alliance Expansion Agreements and an Amended Coordination Agreement
OST-1996-1434 - Approval of and Antitrust Immunity for Commercial Alliance Agreements -

Issued and Served April 27, 2006

Order Consolidating Proceedings and Requesting Additional Information

We agree that the proceedings pending in dockets 1434 and 22922 are closely related and, further, that consolidation serves the public interest of administrative efficiency. We hereby consolidate United's and Air Canada's request for expanded immunity into docket 22922, to be considered together with the Joint Applicants' request for new immunity with LOT, Swiss, and TAP.

Several parties - American, Continental, Delta, and Northwest -- dispute that the Joint Applicants' filings meet the substantially complete standard, and they each move separately to require the Joint Applicants to submit additional documents and data.

To the extent provided by the Attachment to this Order, we grant the Motion of American Airlines, Inc. to require submission of additional documents and data, submitted on February 8, 2006, the Answer of Continental Airlines, Inc., submitted on February 17, 2006, the Answer of Delta Air Lines, Inc., submitted on February 17, 2006, and the Answer of Northwest Airlines, Inc., submitted on February 17, 2006.

The Department directs the Joint Applicants to provide the Department with the additional data and evidentiary information set forth in the Attachment. This information should be filed in the consolidated docket, Docket OST-2005-22922, in accordance with Department rules. To the extent that the Joint Applicants deem it necessary, they may seek confidential treatment of the information as set forth in the Department's regulations. We emphasize that we do not seek duplicative filings by the Joint Applicants; to the extent that the Joint Applicants affirm that information sought in the Attachment has already been filed in the docket, they need only identify which documents satisfy the request.

By: Michael Reynolds