[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 14, Volume 4]
[Revised as of January 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 14CFR255.6]

[Page 212]
 
                     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. 255.6  Contracts with participating carriers.

    (a) No system may discriminate among participating carriers in the 
fees for participation in its system, or for system-related services. 
Differing fees to participating carriers for the same or similar levels 
of service shall be presumed to be discriminatory.
    (b) No system may condition participation in its system on the 
purchase or sale of any other goods or services.
    (c) Notwithstanding paragraph (b) of this section, a system may 
condition participation in its system in the United States on a 
participating carrier's agreement to participate in the system or 
affiliated systems in other countries, if the system and such affiliates 
agree that:
    (1) The display of services in such system and its affiliates will 
not use any factors related to carrier identity and
    (2) Any fees charged the carrier shall not be discriminatory.
    (d) A system shall provide upon request to carriers current 
information on its fee levels and fee arrangements with other 
participating carriers. A system's bill to a participating carrier for 
any fee must contain adequate information and be on magnetic media so 
that the participating carrier can determine whether the bill is 
accurate. At a minimum, booking fee bills must include the following 
information for each segment: PNR record locator number, passenger name, 
booking status, agency ARC number, pseudo-city code, CRS transaction 
date, city-pair information, flight number, flight date, class of 
service, and type of CRS booking.
    (e) No system may require a carrier (other than a carrier that owns 
or markets, or is an affiliate of a person that owns or markets, a 
foreign or domestic computerized reservations system) to maintain any 
particular level of participation or buy any enhancements in its system 
on the basis of participation levels or enhancements selected by that 
carrier in any other foreign or domestic computerized reservations 
system. A system may not compel a carrier that owns or markets, or is an 
affiliate of a person that owns or markets, a foreign or domestic 
computerized reservations system, to maintain a particular level of 
participation or buy an enhancements in its system on the basis of 
participation levels or enhancements selected by that carrier in another 
foreign or domestic computerized reservations system, until 14 days 
after it has given the Department and such carrier written notice of its 
intent to take such action.

[Amdt. 255-9, 57 FR 43834, Sept. 22, 1992, as amended at 62 FR 59802, 
Nov. 5,1997]