[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 14, Volume 4]
[Revised as of January 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 14CFR255.3]

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                     TITLE 14--AERONAUTICS AND SPACE
 
   CHAPTER II--OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 
                         (AVIATION PROCEEDINGS)
 
PART 255--CARRIER-OWNED COMPUTER RESERVATIONS SYSTEMS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 255.3  Definitions.

    Affiliate means any person controlling, owned by, controlled by, or 
under common control with a carrier.
    Availability means information provided in displays with respect to 
the seats carrier holds out as available for sale on a particular 
flight.
    Carrier means any air carrier, any foreign air carrier, and any 
commuter air carrier, as defined in 49 U.S.C. 1301(3), 49 U.S.C. 
1301(22), and 14 CFR 298.2(f), respectively, that is engaged directly in 
the operation of aircraft in passenger air transportation.
    Discriminate, discrimination, and discriminatory mean, respectively, 
to discriminate unjustly, unjust discrimination, and unjustly 
discriminatory.
    Display means that system's presentation of carrier schedules, 
fares, rules or availability to a subscriber by means of a computer 
terminal.
    Integrated display means any display that includes the schedules, 
fares, rules, or availability of all or a significant proportion of the 
system's participating carriers.
    On-time performance code means a single-character code supplied by a 
carrier to the vendor in accordance with the provisions of 14 CFR part 
234 that reflects the monthly on-time performance history of a nonstop 
flight or one-stop or multi-stop single plane operation held out by the 
carrier in a CRS.
    Participating carrier means a carrier, including a system owner, 
that has an agreement with a system for display of its schedules, fares, 
or seat availability, or for the making of reservations or issuance of 
tickets through a system.
    Service enhancement means any product or service offered to 
subscribers or participating carriers in conjunction with a system other 
than the basic display of information on schedules, fares, rules, and 
availability, and the basic ability to make reservations or issue 
tickets for air transportation.
    Subscriber means a ticket agent, as defined in 49 U.S.C. 1301(40), 
that holds itself out as a neutral source of information about, or 
tickets for, the air transportation industry and that uses a system.
    System means a computerized reservations system offered by a carrier 
or its affiliate to subscribers for use in the United States that 
contains information about schedules, fares, rules or availability of 
other carriers and provides subscribers with the ability to make 
reservations and to issue tickets, if it charges any other carrier a fee 
for system services.
    System owner means a carrier that holds five percent or more of the 
equity

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of a system, that has one or more affiliates that hold such an equity 
interest, or that together with affiliates holds such an interest.