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Title 49, TransportationRelease 119-110

§41502 Establishing Joint Prices for Through Routes with Other Carriers

Title 49 › SUBTITLE VII — AVIATION PROGRAMS › PART A — AIR COMMERCE AND SAFETY › subpart ii — economic regulation › CHAPTER 415 — PRICING › § 41502

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

Air carriers may set reasonable joint prices and offer through service with other carriers. A carrier that does not operate aircraft itself (except an air express company) cannot set a joint price for moving property with a carrier covered by subtitle IV of this title. When an air carrier and a subtitle IV carrier work together, they must agree on reasonable prices, classifications, rules, and a reasonable split of any joint price. They must show the through service and joint prices in the tariffs they file with the Secretary of Transportation.

Full Legal Text

Title 49, §41502

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(a)Joint Prices.—
An air carrier may establish reasonable joint prices and through service with another carrier. However, an air carrier not directly operating aircraft in air transportation (except an air express company) may not establish under this section a joint price for the transportation of property with a carrier subject to subtitle IV of this title.
(b)Prices, Classifications, Rules, and Practices and Divisions of Joint Prices.—
For through service by an air carrier and a carrier subject to subtitle IV of this title, the participating carriers shall establish—
(1)reasonable prices and reasonable classifications, rules, and practices affecting those prices or the value of the transportation provided under those prices; and
(2)for joint prices established for the through service, reasonable divisions of those joint prices among the participating carriers.
(c)Statements Included in Tariffs.—
An air carrier and a carrier subject to subtitle IV of this title that are participating in through service and joint prices shall include in their tariffs, filed with the Secretary of Transportation, a statement showing the through service and joint prices.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Historical and Revision Notes

Pub. L. 103–272 Revised SectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 41502(a)49 App.:1483(b) (1st sentence).Aug. 23, 1958, Pub. L. 85–726, § 1003(b), 72 Stat. 791. 41502(b)49 App.:1483(b) (2d sentence). 41502(c)49 App.:1483(b) (last sentence). 49 App.:155(b)(1)(E).Aug. 23, 1958, Pub. L. 85–726, 72 Stat. 731, § 1601(b)(1)(E); added Oct. 4, 1984, Pub. L. 98–443, § 3(e), 98 Stat. 1704. In subsection (a), the words “(except an air express company)” are substituted for “(other than companies engaged in the air express business)” to eliminate unnecessary words. In subsection (b), before clause (1), the words “participating carriers” are substituted for “carriers parties thereto” and “carriers participating therein” for consistency in this chapter. In subsection (c), the words “or the Interstate Commerce Commission, as the case may be” are omitted because of 49:10526(a)(8)(B). Pub. L. 105–102This amends the catchline for 49:41502 to make a technical and conforming amendment necessary because section 308(l) of the ICC Termination Act (Public Law 104–88, 109 Stat. 948) struck “common” from the text of 49:41502.

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1997—Pub. L. 105–102 struck out “common” before “carriers” in section catchline. 1995—Pub. L. 104–88 substituted “another carrier” for “another common carrier” in subsec. (a) and “a carrier” for “a common carrier” in subsecs. (a), (b), and (c).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 1995 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 104–88 effective Jan. 1, 1996, see section 2 of Pub. L. 104–88, set out as an

Effective Date

note under section 1301 of this title.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

49 U.S.C. § 41502

Title 49, Transportation

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110