[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: 14CFR257.3]

[Page 222]
 
                     TITLE 14--AERONAUTICS AND SPACE
 
   CHAPTER II--OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 
                         (AVIATION PROCEEDINGS)
 
PART 257--DISCLOSURE OF CODE-SHARING ARRANGEMENTS AND LONG-TERM WET LEASES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 257.3  Definitions.

    As used in this part:
    (a) Air transportation means foreign air transportation or 
interstate air transportation as defined in 49 U.S.C. 40102 (a)(23) and 
(25) respectively.
    (b) Carrier means any air carrier or foreign air carrier as defined 
in 49 U.S.C. 40102(2) or 49 U.S.C. 40102(21), respectively, that is 
engaged directly in scheduled passenger air transportation, including by 
wet lease.
    (c) Code-sharing arrangement means an arrangement whereby a 
carrier's designator code is used to identify a flight operated by 
another carrier.
    (d) Designator code means the airline designations originally 
allotted and administered pursuant to Agreements CAB 24606 and 26056.
    (e) Long-term wet lease means a lease by which the lessor provides 
both an aircraft and crew dedicated to a particular route(s), and which 
either:
    (1) Lasts more than 60 days; or
    (2) Is part of a series of such leases that amounts to a continuing 
arrangement lasting more than 60 days.
    (f) Ticket agent has the meaning ascribed to it in 49 U.S.C. 
40102(40).
    (g) Transporting carrier means the carrier that is operating the 
aircraft in a code-sharing arrangement or long-term wet lease.