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<strong>Air</strong> Fares and Ticketing – Fares and Rules reference guide – Levels 1 and 2<br />
– Interstate Transportation:<br />
via 6Y/ AV/ AS/ JM/ KX/ LR/ MH/ TR/ TV/ UP/<br />
VW/ VX: Transportation between any point in<br />
District of Columbia/US States, and any other<br />
point in District of Columbia/US States.<br />
– Intraline Transportation<br />
Transportation solely by the services of a single<br />
carrier.<br />
– IROE<br />
IATA Rate Of Exchange published in the IATA<br />
quarterly to convert local currency fares to a<br />
Neutral Unit of Construction (NUC) and to<br />
convert total NUC amounts to the currency of<br />
the country of commencement of<br />
transportation.<br />
– Issuing Carrier<br />
A carrier whose tickets are issued to the<br />
passengers.<br />
– Journey<br />
For tickets issued on or after 1 June 2000:<br />
Origin to destination of the entire ticket.<br />
EXCEPTION via CO: All travel included on a<br />
ticket or group of conjuncted tickets.<br />
– Leg<br />
The space between two consecutive<br />
scheduled touchdown points on any given<br />
flight.<br />
– Local combination<br />
Combination of fares between the same points.<br />
– Local currency fares<br />
Fares and related charges expressed in the<br />
currency of the country of commencement of<br />
travel; see currency rules for those countries<br />
where the US Dollar is used for local currency.<br />
– Luggage<br />
See Baggage.<br />
– Luggage, Registered<br />
See Baggage, Checked.<br />
– Maximum Permitted Mileage (MPM)<br />
The maximum mileage that may be travelled for<br />
a fare component. .<br />
– Maximum Outside Linear Dimensions<br />
The sum of the greatest outside depth plus the<br />
greatest outside height plus the greatest<br />
outside length.<br />
– Medical Certificate:<br />
1 In the case of illness, a note issued by a<br />
doctor on letterhead or prescription pad.<br />
2 In the case of hospitalisation, a copy of any<br />
document certifying hospitalisation issued by<br />
the hospital administration involved.<br />
– Member (IATA member)<br />
IATA carrier.<br />
– Military Agencies<br />
The departments of the Army, Navy, <strong>Air</strong> Force,<br />
Marine Corp, Coast Guard and their respective<br />
training academies. The Reserve Officer<br />
Training Corps is not included.<br />
– Military Passenger<br />
Military personnel of the US military agencies<br />
who are on active duty status or who have<br />
been discharged from active military service<br />
within 7 days of the date of travel.<br />
EXCEPTION: via TW: U.S. Military personnel of<br />
the U.S. armed forces (Army, Navy, <strong>Air</strong> Force,<br />
Marines, and Coast Guard) and activated<br />
members of the reserves and National Guard.<br />
– Minimum group size<br />
Minimum number of passengers required to<br />
quality for a fare.<br />
– Minimum tour price (MTP)<br />
The minimum selling price for the tour<br />
calculated as the air fare plus an amount for<br />
land arrangements.<br />
– Minor via CO<br />
Means a person who has reached his/her<br />
second birthday but not his/her eighteenth<br />
birthday as of the date of commencement of<br />
travel.<br />
– Miscellaneous Charges Order (MCO)<br />
A document issued by a carrier or its agent<br />
requesting issue of an appropriate Passenger<br />
Ticket and Baggage Check or provision of<br />
services to the person named in such<br />
document.<br />
– Months<br />
See Rule 2.1.8.2<br />
– National<br />
A person who has the citizenship of a country,<br />
either by birth of by naturalisation.<br />
– Non Affinity Group<br />
Members of a travel group who do not share a<br />
common affinity.<br />
– Non-iata Carrier<br />
Any carrier who is not a Member of IATA.<br />
– Non-TC Member<br />
via BA: A member of IATA who has elected not<br />
to participate in Tariff Coordinating Conference.<br />
– No-show<br />
A passenger who fails to use reserved<br />
accommodation for reason other than missed<br />
connections.<br />
– No-show charge<br />
The charge made by reason of the failure of a<br />
passenger to use reserved accommodation,<br />
either through failure to arrive at the airport at<br />
the time fixed by the carrier, or through arriving<br />
improperly documented or otherwise not ready<br />
to travel on flight.<br />
– Normal Fares<br />
See definition in Rule 2.1.5.1.<br />
EXCEPTION.<br />
1 via 6Y/ AA/ AV/ JM/ KX/ LR/ MH/ UP/ VW/<br />
VX: The highest fare established for First,<br />
Economy, Business class service, the<br />
application of which is not dependent upon<br />
any specially limited period of ticket validity or<br />
other special circumstances.<br />
2 via BA: A fare established as a normal fare<br />
for First, Intermediate or Economy class<br />
service. Children’s and infants fares which are<br />
established as a percentage of the fares<br />
referred to above are also considered to be<br />
normal fares.<br />
3 via all other carriers: The full fare established<br />
for a first, intermediate or economy/ tourist class<br />
service and any other fare denominated and<br />
published as a normal fare (e.g. C2/F2/Y2).<br />
Children’s and infants fares which are<br />
established as a percentage of the fares<br />
referred to above are also considered to be<br />
normal fares.<br />
– Normal Fare Open Jaw<br />
For tickets issued on or after 1 June 2000:<br />
Travel from one country and return thereto<br />
comprising not more than two international fare<br />
components with a domestic surface break in<br />
one country either at unit origin or unit<br />
turnaround, or a surface break at both unit<br />
origin and unit turnaround and for which the<br />
fare is assessed as a single pricing unit using<br />
hald round trip fares.<br />
In this context:<br />
a) ‘turnaround open jaw’ shall mean where the<br />
outward point of arrival in the country of unit<br />
turnaround and the inward point of departure in<br />
the country of unit turnaround are different.<br />
b) ‘origin open jaw’ shall mean where the<br />
outward point of departure in the country of unit<br />
origin and the inward point of arrival in the<br />
country of unit origin are different.<br />
Exceptions:<br />
1. for travel originating in Canada or USA, the<br />
surface break may be permitted between<br />
countries in the Europe Sub-area; provided<br />
travel in both directions is via the Atlantic.<br />
2. Canada, USA shall be considered as one<br />
country.<br />
3. Scandinavia shall be considered as one<br />
country.<br />
– NUC<br />
Neutral Unit of Construction<br />
EXCEPTION:<br />
1 via AA/JL/US: A common unit used to<br />
construct fares using different local currency<br />
fares.<br />
2 via NW: A common unit derived from local<br />
selling fares, add-on amounts, or related<br />
charges, used in fare construction.<br />
3 via all other carriers: The unit value<br />
equivalent of local currency fares, add-ons and<br />
related charges derived by converting same<br />
using the IATA rate of exchange.<br />
– On-Line Tariff Data Base<br />
The remotely accessible on-line version<br />
maintained by the filer, of (1) the electronically<br />
filed tariff data submitted to the “official D.O.T.<br />
tariff database,” and (2) the Departmental<br />
approvals, disapprovals and other actions, as<br />
well as Departmental notations concerning<br />
such approvals, disapprovals or other actions,<br />
that Subpart W of the proposed Part 221<br />
requires the filer to maintain in its database.<br />
The term “official D.O.T. tariff database” means<br />
those data records (as set forth in Sections<br />
221.283 and 221.286 of the rule) which would<br />
be in the custody of, and maintained by the<br />
Department of Transportation.<br />
– On-line transfer<br />
Transfer from the service of one carrier to<br />
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another service of the same carrier.<br />
– On-line Transfer Point<br />
Any point at which the passenger transfers<br />
from one service of a carrier to another service<br />
(bearing a different flight number) of the same<br />
carrier.<br />
– One Way Subjourney<br />
For tickets issued on or after 1 June 2000:<br />
Part of a journey wherein travel from one<br />
country does not return to such country and for<br />
which the fare is assessed as a single pricing<br />
unit using a one way fare.<br />
– One-way trips<br />
A one-way trip is considered to be any journey<br />
which, for fare calculation purposes is not a<br />
complete round or circle trip entirely by air.<br />
Note: Special fare provisions exist for one-way<br />
journeys<br />
– Onward combination<br />
See end-on combination.<br />
– Open jaw (only applicable for special fares)<br />
See definition in Rule 2.9<br />
EXCEPTION: via US: Between Canada and<br />
Puerto Rico: Single open jaw means any trip<br />
which is essentially of a round or circle trip<br />
nature, but the outward point of arrival and the<br />
inward point of departure are not the same.<br />
– Origin<br />
The initial starting place of the journey as<br />
shown on the ticket.<br />
– Origin Single Open Jaw (OSOJ)<br />
See Rule 2.9<br />
– Other charges<br />
Charges with no relation to fares, such as<br />
taxes, fees, etc. excluding excess baggage<br />
charges.<br />
– Overseas Transportation<br />
Transportation between any point in District of<br />
Columbia/US States and Canada/US<br />
Possessions/US Territories.<br />
– Over water<br />
via BA: When crossing a water mass within<br />
Area 1, the portion of travel from the last point<br />
of departure within the continental USA/<br />
Canada to the first point of arrival outside<br />
Continental USA/Canada and/or the last point<br />
of departure outside the Continental USA/<br />
Canada. This definition applies specifically for<br />
the following points:<br />
– Between Alaska and Canada/Continental<br />
USA.<br />
– ‘Between Alaska and Canada/Continental<br />
USA,<br />
Hawaii and Puerto Rico/Virgin Islands.<br />
– Between Alaska and Hawaii.<br />
– Between Canada/Continental USA and<br />
Hawaii.<br />
– Passenger<br />
Any person, except members of the crew,<br />
carried or to be carried in an aircraft with the<br />
consent of carrier.<br />
– Passenger Coupon<br />
See Coupon, Passenger.<br />
– Passenger Ticket<br />
See Ticket<br />
– Pitch, Seat<br />
The distance between the front edge of one<br />
seat in an aircraft and the front edge of the seat<br />
immediately in front when both are in an upright<br />
position.<br />
– Point of Turnaround<br />
The farthest geographical fare break (between<br />
two fare components) from the Pricing Unit<br />
origin.<br />
– Prepaid Ticket Advice (Pta)<br />
The notification by teletype, commercial wire or<br />
mail that a person in one city has requested<br />
issuance of prepaid transportation as<br />
described in the authority, to a person in<br />
another city.<br />
– Pricing unit<br />
For tickets issued on or after 1 June 2000:<br />
A journey or a part of a journey which is priced<br />
as a separate entity, i.e. is capable of being<br />
ticketed separately.<br />
– Proportional Fares<br />
via JL/NW: An amount published for use only<br />
in combination with other fares for carriage<br />
between specified points.<br />
– Public special fare<br />
All special fares except IIT/GIT fares.<br />
– Rate of Exchange (ROE)<br />
See IATA Rate of Exchange (ROE)<br />
– Rebooking<br />
Change of reservation or other changes which<br />
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