PRIA, Government Policy, Made Personal

Summary

Allows an airline (including foreign airlines) to give free or cheaper international tickets under rules set by the Secretary of Transportation. It covers eight categories, such as current and retired employees who get retirement pay and their immediate family, parents and family of those employees or officers, widows/widowers or minor children of employees who died from on-the-job injuries, people injured in a plane accident and the doctors or nurses who care for them, parents or family of people injured or killed in an accident, people or goods sent to help during an epidemic or emergency, and other groups the Secretary allows. The law also lets an airline offer reduced-price international seats when space is available (only if seats are open) to ministers, people at least 60 years old who are no longer working for pay, people at least 65 years old, and people with severe vision, hearing, or other disabilities plus an attendant who helps them.

Title 49, §41511

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(a)Free and Reduced Pricing.—

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:

(1)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).

(2)a parent or the immediate family of such an officer or employee or the immediate family of such a director.

(3)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.

(4)a witness or attorney attending a legal investigation in which the air carrier is interested.

(5)an individual injured in an aircraft accident and a physician or nurse attending the individual.

(6)a parent or the immediate family of an individual injured or killed in an aircraft accident when the transportation is related to the accident.

(7)an individual or property to provide relief in a general epidemic, pestilence, or other emergency.

(8)other individuals under other circumstances the Secretary prescribes by regulation.

(b)Space-Available Basis.—

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:

(1)a minister of religion.

(2)an individual who is at least 60 years of age and no longer gainfully employed.

(3)an individual who is at least 65 years of age.

(4)an individual who has severely impaired vision or hearing or another physical or mental disability and an accompanying attendant needed by that individual.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Historical and Revision Notes

Revised SectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 41511(a)49 App.:1373(b)(1) (2d sentence).Aug. 23, 1958, Pub. L. 85–726, § 403(b)(1) (2d– last sentences), 72 Stat. 759; July 12, 1960, Pub. L. 86–627, 74 Stat. 445; Jan. 3, 1975, Pub. L. 93–623, § 8(a), 88 Stat. 2105; Nov. 9, 1977, Pub. L. 95–163, § 8(a), 91 Stat. 1281. 49 App.:1551(a)(4)(B) (related to 49 App.:1373(b)(1)), (b)(1)(E).Aug. 23, 1958, Pub. L. 85–726, 72 Stat. 731, § 1601(a)(4)(B) (related to § 403(b)(1)), (b)(1)(E); added Oct. 4, 1984, Pub. L. 98–443, § 3(c), (e), 98 Stat. 1703, 1704. 41511(b)49 App.:1373(b)(1) (3d–last sentences). 49 App.:1551(a)(4)(B) (related to 49 App.:1373(b)(1)), (b)(1)(E). In this section, the words “foreign air transportation” are substituted for “transportation” and “in the case of overseas or foreign air transportation” because 49 App.:1551(a)(4)(B) provides that 49 App.:1373 no longer applies to interstate or overseas air transportation and 49 App.:1376(a)–(e), restated in section 41901 of the revised title, governs rates for the transportation of mail by aircraft. See section 40102(a) of the revised title defining “air transportation” to mean interstate or foreign air transportation or the transportation of mail by aircraft. The word “conditions” is omitted as being included in “terms”. In subsection (a)(7), the words “or other emergency” are substituted for “other calamitous visitation” for consistency. In subsection (b)(2), the words “no longer gainfully employed” are substituted for “retired” and “For purposes of this subsection, the term ‘retired’ means no longer gainfully employed as defined by the Board” to eliminate unnecessary words. In subsection (b)(4), the words “an individual who has severely impaired vision or hearing or another physical or mental handicap” are substituted for “handicapped person” and “For the purposes of this subsection, the term ‘handicapped person’ means any person who has severely impaired vision or hearing, and any other physically or mentally handicapped person, as defined by the Board” to eliminate unnecessary words.

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2024—Subsec. (b)(4). Pub. L. 118–63 substituted “disability” for “handicap”.

§41511 Special Prices for Foreign Air Transportation