[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: 14CFR253.5]



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                     TITLE 14--AERONAUTICS AND SPACE

 

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

                         (AVIATION PROCEEDINGS)

 

PART 253_NOTICE OF TERMS OF CONTRACT OF CARRIAGE--Table of Contents

 

Sec. 253.5  Notice of incorporated terms.



    Except as provided in Sec. 253.8, each air carrier shall include on 

or with a ticket, or other written instrument given to a passenger, that 

embodies the contract of carriage and incorporates terms by reference in 

that contract, a conspicuous notice that:

    (a) Any terms incorporated by reference are part of the contract, 

passengers may inspect the full text of each term incorporated by 

reference at the carrier's airport or city ticket offices, and 

passengers have the right, upon request at any location where the 

carrier's tickets are sold within the United States, to receive free of 

charge by mail or other delivery service the full text of each such 

incorporated term;

    (b) The incorporated terms may include and passengers may obtain 

from any location where the carrier's tickets are sold within the United 

States further information concerning:

    (1) Limits on the air carrier's liability for personal injury or 

death of passengers, and for loss, damage, or delay of goods and 

baggage, including fragile or perishable goods;

    (2) Claim restrictions, including time periods within which 

passengers must file a claim or bring an action against the carrier for 

its acts or omissions or those of its agents;

    (3) Rights of the carrier to change terms of the contract. (Rights 

to change the price, however, are governed by Sec. 253.7);

    (4) Rules about reconfirmation of reservations, check-in times, and 

refusal to carry;

    (5) Rights of the carrier and limitations concerning delay or 

failure to perform service, including schedule changes, substitution of 

alternate air carrier or aircraft, and rerouting.



(Approved by the Office of Management and Budget under control number 

3024-0061)



[ER-1302, 47 FR 52134, Nov. 19, 1982, as amended by ER-1309, 47 FR 

54764, Dec. 6, 1982; ER-1370, 48 FR 54591, Dec. 6, 1983; ER-1375, 49 FR 

5064, Feb. 10, 1984]



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