[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: 14CFR255.8]

[Page 213]
 
                     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. 255.8  Contracts with subscribers.

    (a) No subscriber contract may have a term in excess of five years. 
No system may offer a subscriber or potential subscriber a subscriber 
contract with a term in excess of three years unless the system 
simultaneously offers such subscriber or potential subscriber a 
subscriber contract with a term no longer than three years. No contract 
may contain any provision that automatically extends the contract beyond 
its stated date of termination, whether because of the addition or 
deletion of equipment or because of some other event.
    (b) No system may directly or indirectly impede a subscriber from 
obtaining or using any other system. Among other things, no subscriber 
contract or contract offer may require the subscriber to use a system 
for a minimum volume of transactions, and no subscriber contract or 
contract offer may require the subscriber to lease a minimum number or 
ratio of system components based upon or related to:
    (1) The number of system components leased from another system 
vendor or
    (2) The volume of transactions conducted on any other system.
    (c) No system owner may require use of its system by the subscriber 
in any sale of its air transportation services.
    (d) No system owner may require that a travel agent use or subscribe 
to its system as a condition for the receipt of any commission for the 
sale of its air transportation services.
    (e) No system may charge prices to subscribers conditioned in whole 
or in part on the identity of carriers whose flights are sold by the 
subscriber.