[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: 14CFR217.1]



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                     TITLE 14--AERONAUTICS AND SPACE

 

   CHAPTER II--OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

                         (AVIATION PROCEEDINGS)

 

PART 217_REPORTING TRAFFIC STATISTICS BY FOREIGN AIR CARRIERS IN CIVILIAN 

SCHEDULED, CHARTER, AND NONSCHEDULED SERVICES--Table of Contents

 

Sec. 217.1  Definitions.









Sec.

217.1 Definitions.

217.2 Applicability.

217.3 Reporting requirements.

217.4 Data collected (service classes).

217.5 Data collected (data elements).

217.6 Extension of filing time.

217.7 Certification.

217.8 Reporting procedures.

217.9 Waivers from reporting requirements.

217.10 Instructions.

217.11 Reporting compliance.



    Authority: 49 U.S.C. 329 and chapters 401, 413, 417.



    Source: 53 FR 46294, Nov. 16, 1988, unless otherwise noted.





    As used in this part:

    Foreign Air Carrier means a non-U.S. air carrier holding a foreign 

air carrier permit or exemption authority from the Department of 

Transportation.

    Nonrevenue passenger means: a person traveling free or under token 

charges,



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except those expressly named in the definition of revenue passenger; a 

person traveling at a fare or discount available only to employees or 

authorized persons of air carriers or their agents or only for travel on 

the business of the carriers; and an infant who does not occupy a seat. 

(This definition is for 14 CFR Part 217 traffic reporting purposes and 

may differ from the definitions used in other parts by the Federal 

Aviation Administration and the Transportation Security Administration 

for the collection of Passenger Facility Charges and Security Fees.)

    The definition includes, but is not limited to the following 

examples of passengers when traveling free or pursuant to token charges:

    (1) Directors, officers, employees, and others authorized by the air 

carrier operating the aircraft;

    (2) Directors, officers, employees, and others authorized by the air 

carrier or another carrier traveling pursuant to a pass interchange 

agreement;

    (3) Travel agents being transported for the purpose of familiarizing 

themselves with the carrier's services;

    (4) Witnesses and attorneys attending any legal investigation in 

which such carrier is involved;

    (5) Persons injured in aircraft accidents, and physicians, nurses, 

and others attending such persons;

    (6) Any persons transported with the object of providing relief in 

cases of general epidemic, natural disaster, or other catastrophe;

    (7) Any law enforcement official, including any person who has the 

duty of guarding government officials who are traveling on official 

business or traveling to or from such duty;

    (8) Guests of an air carrier on an inaugural flight or delivery 

flights of newly-acquired or renovated aircraft;

    (9) Security guards who have been assigned the duty to guard such 

aircraft against unlawful seizure, sabotage, or other unlawful 

interference;

    (10) Safety inspectors of the National Transportation Safety Board 

or the FAA in their official duties or traveling to or from such duty;

    (11) Postal employees on duty in charge of the mails or traveling to 

or from such duty;

    (12) Technical representatives of companies that have been engaged 

in the manufacture, development or testing of a particular type of 

aircraft or aircraft equipment, when the transportation is provided for 

the purpose of in-flight observation and subject to applicable FAA 

regulations;

    (13) Persons engaged in promoting air transportation;

    (14) Air marshals and other Transportation Security officials acting 

in their official capacities and while traveling to and from their 

official duties; and

    (15) Other authorized persons, when such transportation is 

undertaken for promotional purpose.

    Reporting carrier for T-100(f) purposes means the air carrier in 

operational control of the flight, i.e., the carrier that uses its 

flight crews under its own operating authority.

    Revenue passenger means: a passenger for whose transportation an air 

carrier receives commercial remuneration. (This definition is for 14 CFR 

Part 217 traffic reporting purposes and may differ from the definitions 

used in other parts by the Federal Aviation Administration and the 

Transportation Security Administration for the collection of Passenger 

Facility Charges and Security Fees.) This includes, but is not limited 

to, the following examples:

    (1) Passengers traveling under publicly available tickets including 

promotional offers (for example two-for-one) or loyalty programs (for 

example, redemption of frequent flyer points);

    (2) Passengers traveling on vouchers or tickets issued as 

compensation for denied boarding or in response to consumer complaints 

or claims;

    (3) Passengers traveling at corporate discounts;

    (4) Passengers traveling on preferential fares (Government, seamen, 

military, youth, student, etc.);

    (5) Passengers traveling on barter tickets; and

    (6) Infants traveling on confirmed-space tickets.

    Statement of Authorization under this part means a statement of 

authorization from the Department, pursuant to 14 CFR part 207, 208, or 

212, as appropriate, that permits joint service transportation, such as 

blocked space agreements, part-charters, code-sharing or



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wet-leases, between two direct air carriers holding underlying economic 

authority from the Department.

    Wet-Lease Agreement means an agreement under which one carrier 

leases an aircraft with flight crew to another air carrier.



[53 FR 46294, Nov. 16, 1988, as amended at 67 FR 49223, July 30, 2002; 

67 FR 58689, Sept. 18, 2002]