[Code of Federal Regulations] [Title 14, Volume 4] [Revised as of January 1, 2006] From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access [CITE: 14CFR216.1] [Page 42-43] TITLE 14--AERONAUTICS AND SPACE CHAPTER II--OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (AVIATION PROCEEDINGS) PART 216_COMMINGLING OF BLIND SECTOR TRAFFIC BY FOREIGN AIR CARRIERS --Table of Contents Sec. 216.1 Definitions. Sec. 216.1 Definitions. 216.2 Applicability. 216.3 Prohibition. 216.4 Special authorizations. 216.5 Existing permits. 216.6 Existing unauthorized operations. Authority: 49 U.S.C. Chapters 401, 413, 417. Source: ER-525, 33 FR 692, Jan. 19, 1968, unless otherwise noted. (a) As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires: Act means the Federal Aviation Act of 1958, as amended. Blind sector traffic means revenue traffic, carried by a foreign air carrier on a flight operating in air transportation, which is enplaned at one foreign point and deplaned at another foreign point, where at least one of such points is not named as a terminal or intermediate point in the carrier's applicable foreign air carrier permit. Note: This definition shall not be deemed to include the carriage of authorized beyond homeland traffic (i.e., traffic carried between a point named in a carrier's foreign air carrier permit and a point beyond a homeland terminal point authorized under such permit). [[Page 43]] Revenue traffic means persons, property or mail carried for compensation or hire. (b) Terms defined in section 101 of the Act have the meaning expressed in such definitions.