Appeal No. 2005-0823
Application No. 10/300,895 Page 31
the above captioned application, explaining the disadvantages of
maintaining the airline's then-current practice of a weekly
reporting period during which changes to issued tickets could be
made without imposition of any airline-imposed fees. A redacted
copy of an exemplary business proposal for implementation
presented during my meetings is attached hereto as Exh. A."
Declarant further states that "in November of 2002, ARC announced
its intention to discontinue its long-standing policy practice of
weekly reporting of issued tickets to the airlines and begin
reporting more frequently." It is further declared that ARC's
original plan was to go to a five times a week reporting, and
that thereafter, ARC altered its original plan and on March 13,
2003 announced a revised plan that would be implemented on June
4, 2003. Under ARC's current practice, reporting must be done by
midnight of the following day. Thus, under current practice a
ticket sale becomes "permanent" by the end of the day after it
was issued.
We find this Declaration to be problematic, as it raises
more questions than it answers. Before we address the problems
with the Declaration, we will discuss the contents of the
November 15, 2002 ARC announcement, as well as the March 19, 2003
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