[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 14, Volume 4]
[Revised as of January 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 14CFR375.35]

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                     TITLE 14--AERONAUTICS AND SPACE
 
   CHAPTER II--OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 
                         (AVIATION PROCEEDINGS)
 
PART 375--NAVIGATION OF FOREIGN CIVIL AIRCRAFT WITHIN THE UNITED STATES--Table of Contents
 
                    Subpart D--Authorized Operations
 
Sec. 375.35  Free transportation.

    (a) Foreign civil aircraft may be navigated in the United States by 
a foreign air carrier for the transportation of persons and property 
specified in paragraph (b) of this section over the following non-
traffic segments provided such transportation is not for compensation or 
hire:
    (1) Between two or more points in the United States;
    (2) Between a point in the United States named in the carrier's 
section 402 permit or exemption, and a point outside the United States 
not so named, when authorized in accordance with the provisions of part 
216 of this chapter to carry blind sector traffic to or from such 
unnamed foreign point; and
    (3) Between a point in the United States and a point outside thereof 
when the carrier lands at the United States point for non-traffic 
purposes in exercise of the privilege granted under the International 
Air Services Transit Agreement.
    (b) Free transportation may be provided under this section for the 
following categories of persons and property:
    (1) Directors, officers and employees, and their parents and 
immediate families, of the foreign air carrier operating the aircraft;
    (2) Directors, officers and employees, and their parents and 
immediate families, of an air carrier or another foreign air carrier 
traveling pursuant to a pass interchange arrangement;
    (3) Travel agents being transported for the purpose of familiarizing 
themselves with the carrier's services, if the agents are under no 
obligation to sell the transporting carrier's services;
    (4) Witnesses and attorneys attending any legal investigation in 
which any such foreign air carrier is involved;
    (5) Persons injured in aircraft accidents and physicians and nurses 
attending such persons;
    (6) Any persons or property with the object of providing relief in 
cases of general epidemic, natural disaster or other catastrophe;
    (7) Any person who has the duty of guarding foreign government 
officials travelling on official business; and
    (8) Guests of a foreign air carrier (including members of the press) 
on delivery flights of newly-acquired or newly-renovated aircraft.

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    (c) A charge reasonably related to the value of meals and beverages 
furnished enroute shall not be deemed to constitute compensation or hire 
for purposes of this section.