49 U.S.C. § 41708 — Reports

(a) To the extent necessary to carry out this subpart, this section and section 41709 apply to a person who controls an air carrier or is affiliated with a carrier as section 11343(c) defines “affiliated.”

(b) The Secretary may require an air carrier or foreign air carrier: (1)(A) to file annual, monthly, periodic, and special reports in the required form and manner, and (B) to file them under oath; (2) to answer specifically questions for which the Secretary decides information is needed; and (3) to file every agreement, arrangement, contract, or understanding with another carrier or person concerning transportation affected by this subpart.

(c)(1) The Secretary must require a carrier described in paragraph (2) to file monthly information about each flight diverted from its scheduled destination to another airport and each flight that leaves its originating gate but is canceled before wheels-off time. (2) This applies to a carrier required to file a monthly airline service quality performance report under 14 CFR part 234. (3) At minimum, each report must include: (A) for a diverted flight, its number, scheduled destination, date and time, diversion airport, wheels-on time there, any time passengers deplaned there, and, if it reaches the scheduled destination, gate-departure and wheels-off times at the diversion airport plus wheels-on and gate-arrival times at the scheduled airport; (B) for a flight canceled after gate departure, its number, scheduled origin and destination airports, date and time, gate-departure time, and time the aircraft returned to the gate. (4) The Secretary must combine these monthly reports into one monthly report and publish it on the Department of Transportation website.