49 U.S.C. § 41511 — Special prices for foreign air transportation
submitted 32 years ago by Pub. L. 103-272 to r/title-49-TRANSPORTATION · 297 words · no verdicts yet
Carriers can give free or discounted foreign air tickets to their employees, certain family members, accident victims and their caregivers, legal witnesses, and people helped during an emergency, following the Secretary's rules. Carriers may also offer space-available discounts to clergy, older adults, and people with severe disabilities and their attendants.
(a) Free or reduced-price tickets. Under terms the Secretary of Transportation sets, this chapter does not stop a carrier from issuing or exchanging free or reduced-price tickets or passes for: (1) a carrier's director, officer, or employee, including a retired one getting retirement benefits; (2) a parent or immediate family member of such an officer, employee, or director; (3) the widow, widower, or minor child of an employee who died from a job-related injury; (4) a witness or attorney attending a legal proceeding the carrier is involved in; (5) someone hurt in an aircraft accident, and the physician or nurse caring for them; (6) a parent or immediate family member of someone hurt or killed in an aircraft accident, if the travel relates to the accident; (7) a person or property helping with relief during an epidemic, pestilence, or other emergency; and (8) other people the Secretary names by regulation.
(b) Discounts based on available space. Under terms the Secretary sets, a carrier may offer reduced-price tickets, if seats are available, to (1) a minister; (2) someone at least 60 years old who is no longer working for pay; (3) someone at least 65 years old; and (4) someone with severe vision or hearing loss, or another physical or mental disability, plus a needed attendant traveling with them.
This chapter does not prohibit an air carrier or foreign air carrier, under terms the Secretary of Transportation prescribes, from issuing or interchanging tickets or passes for free or reduced-price foreign air transportation to or for the following:
a director, officer, or employee of the carrier (including a retired director, officer, or employee who is receiving retirement benefits from an air carrier or foreign air carrier).
a parent or the immediate family of such an officer or employee or the immediate family of such a director.
a widow, widower, or minor child of an employee of the carrier who died as a direct result of a personal injury sustained when performing a duty in the service of the carrier.
a witness or attorney attending a legal investigation in which the air carrier is interested.
an individual injured in an aircraft accident and a physician or nurse attending the individual.
a parent or the immediate family of an individual injured or killed in an aircraft accident when the transportation is related to the accident.
an individual or property to provide relief in a general epidemic, pestilence, or other emergency.
other individuals under other circumstances the Secretary prescribes by regulation.
Under terms the Secretary prescribes, an air carrier or foreign air carrier may grant reduced-price foreign air transportation on a space-available basis to the following:
a minister of religion.
an individual who is at least 60 years of age and no longer gainfully employed.
an individual who is at least 65 years of age.
an individual who has severely impaired vision or hearing or another physical or mental disability and an accompanying attendant needed by that individual.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 103–272, § 1(e), July 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 1139; Pub. L. 118–63, title V, § 550(b), May 16, 2024, 138 Stat. 1212.)
- 1994Enacted · Pub. L. 103-272 · 108 Stat. 1139
- 2024Amended · Pub. L. 118-63 · 138 Stat. 1212
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 103-272 on 1994-07-05.
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