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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 />

1 Abbreviations and Definitions<br />

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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