[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: 14CFR223.22]



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                     TITLE 14--AERONAUTICS AND SPACE

 

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

                         (AVIATION PROCEEDINGS)

 

PART 223_FREE AND REDUCED-RATE TRANSPORTATION--Table of Contents

 

                     Subpart C_International Travel

 

Sec. 223.22  Other persons to whom free and reduced-rate transportation 

may be furnished.



    Air carriers and foreign air carriers are exempted from sections 403 

and 404(b) of the Act and part 221 of this chapter to the extent 

necessary to provide free or reduced-rate foreign air transportation, 

including passes, to the following:

    (a) Directors, officers, employees, and retirees and members of 

their immediate families, of any carrier or of any affiliate of such 

carrier, subject to the requirements of Sec. 223.25.

    (b) Persons to whom the carrier is required to furnish such 

transportation by law or government directive or by a contract or 

agreement between the carrier and the government of any country served 

by the carrier. The Board may, without prior notice, direct the carrier 

to file a tariff covering such transportation if it finds that the law 

or government directive in question requires the provision of such 

transportation. This transportation may be provided only if:

    (1) The contract or agreement is filed with the Board, and it is not 

disapproved by the Board; and

    (2) The law or government directive does not require the furnishing 

of such transportation to the general public or any segment thereof.

    (c) 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 

purposes of in-flight observation, and subject to applicable regulations 

of the Federal Aviation Administration such as regulations pertaining to 

admission of persons to the aircraft flight deck.

    (d) Any person in return for goods or services provided by such 

person whether the transportation is used by that person or any designee 

of such person;

    (e) Persons engaged in promoting transportation and their immediate 

families, when such transportation is undertaken for a promotional 

purpose;

    (f) Persons being transported on an inaugural flight or delivery 

flight of the carrier except that, in the case of delivery flights, this 

exemption extends only to free, and not reduced-rate, transportation;

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

duty of guarding government officials traveling on official business 

against unlawful interference;

    (h) As compensation to persons that file a complaint or claim 

against the carrier;

    (i) Charitable organizations; and

    (j) Any person in an aviation-related occupation when the 

transportation is



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provided for the purpose of technical in-flight observation.