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RIN: 2105-AD66

Publication ID: Fall 2013

Title: Enhanced Consumer Protections for Charter Air Transportation
Abstract: The U.S. Department of Transportation (Department) is seeking comment on the following proposals to strengthen the legal protections provided to consumers for charter air transportation: (1) enumerating certain prohibited unfair and deceptive practices by air taxis registered with the Department under 14 CFR part 298 and, as recommended by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), requiring air taxis that sell charter air transportation, but rely on others to perform that air transportation, to disclose, among other things, at the time an air charter contract is arranged and anytime thereafter if such information changes, the name of the direct air carrier actually operating that service and any other name in which that direct air carrier holds itself out to the public; (2) creating a new class of indirect air carriers (i.e., air charter brokers) to provide single entity charter air transportation of passengers aboard large and small aircraft, establishing required disclosures for air charter brokers to give to their customers, and enumerating certain prohibited unfair and deceptive practices by air charter brokers; (3) codifying the exemption authority granted in 1983 to the class of indirect air carriers that provide air ambulance services and establishing required disclosures by such carriers to the public; and (4) making clear and codifying that the air services performed under contract with the Federal Government are in common carriage.
Agency: Department of Transportation(DOT)	Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
RIN Status: Previously published in the Unified Agenda	Agenda Stage of Rulemaking: Proposed Rule Stage
Major: No	Unfunded Mandates: No
CFR Citation: 14 CFR 298
Legal Authority: 49 USC 329 49 USC 401, 411, and 417 49 USC 106(g), 447 and 451

Legal Deadline: None

Timetable:

Action	Date	FR Cite
ANPRM	01/26/2007	72 FR 3773
ANPRM Comment Period End	03/27/2007
NPRM	11/00/2013

Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No	Government Levels Affected: None
Small Entities Affected: No	Federalism: No
Included in the Regulatory Plan: No
RIN Information URL: www.regulations.gov	Public Comment URL: www.regulations.gov
RIN Data Printed in the FR: No
Agency Contact: Blane A Workie Principal Deputy Assistant General Counsel Department of Transportation Office of the Secretary 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE, Washington, DC 20590 Phone:202 366-9342 TDD Phone:202 755-7687 Fax:202 366-7152 Email: blane.workie@dot.gov