[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: 14CFR255.1.] [Page 209] TITLE 14--AERONAUTICS AND SPACE CHAPTER II--OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (AVIATION PROCEEDINGS) PART 255_AIRLINE COMPUTER RESERVATIONS SYSTEMS--Table of Contents Sec. 255.1. Purpose. Sec. 255.1 Purpose. 255.2 Applicability. 255.3 Definitions. 255.4 Display of information. 255.5 Contracts with participating carriers. 255.6 Exceptions. 255.7 Prohibition against carrier bias. 255.8 Sunset Date. Authority: 49 U.S.C. 40101, 40102, 40105, 40113, 41712. Source: 69 FR 1032, Jan. 7, 2004, unless otherwise noted. (a) The purpose of this part is to set forth requirements for the operation of computer reservations systems used by travel agents and certain related air carrier distribution practices so as to prevent unfair, deceptive, predatory, and anticompetitive practices in air transportation and the sale of air transportation. (b) Nothing in this part operates to exempt any person from the operation of the antitrust laws set forth in subsection (a) of the first section of the Clayton Act (15 U.S.C. 12).