---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 C.F.R. § 158.45"
title: "14"
number: "158.45"
heading: "Collection of PFC's on tickets issued in the U.S."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/14/158.45"
---

# §158.45. Collection of PFC's on tickets issued in the U.S.

- (a) On and after the charge effective date, tickets issued in the U.S. shall include the required PFC except as provided in paragraphs [(c)](#c) and [(d)](#d) of this section.
  - (1) Issuing carriers shall be responsible for all funds from time of collection to remittance.
  - (2) **The appropriate charge is the PFC in effect at the time the ticket is issued.**
  - (3) Issuing carriers and their agents shall collect PFCs based on the itinerary at the time of issuance.
    - (i) Any change in itinerary initiated by a passenger that requires an adjustment to the amount paid by the passenger is subject to collection or refund of the PFC as appropriate.
    - (ii) **Failure to travel on a nonrefundable or expired ticket is not a change in itinerary.** If the ticket purchaser is not permitted any fare refund on the unused ticket, the ticket purchaser is not permitted a refund of any PFC associated with that ticket.
- (b) Issuing carriers and their agents shall note as a separate item on each air travel ticket upon which a PFC is shown, the total amount of PFC's paid by the passenger and the airports for which the PFC's are collected.
- (c) For each one-way trip shown on the complete itinerary of an air travel ticket, issuing air carriers and their agents shall collect a PFC from a passenger only for the first two airports where PFC's are imposed. For each round trip, a PFC shall be collected only for enplanements at the first two enplaning airports and the last two enplaning airports where PFC's are imposed.
- (d) In addition to the restriction in [paragraph (c)](#c) of this section, issuing carriers and their agents shall not collect PFC's from a passenger covered by any of the other limitations described in [§ 158.9(a)](/cfr/14/158.9.md?p=a).
- (e) Collected PFC's shall be distributed as noted on the air travel ticket.
- (f) Issuing carriers and their agents shall stop collecting the PFC's on the charge expiration date stated in a notice from the public agency, or as required by the Administrator.

## Notes

### Amendments

[Docket 26385, 56 FR 24278, May 29, 1991, as amended by Amdt. 158-2, 65 FR 34542, May 30, 2000; Amdt. 158-4, 72 FR 28849, May 23, 2007]

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(g), 40116-40117, 47106, 47111, 47114-47116, 47524, 47526.

### Source

Source: Docket 26385, 56 FR 24278, May 29, 1991, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[Docket 26385, 56 FR 24278, May 29, 1991, as amended by Amdt. 158-2, 65 FR 34542, May 30, 2000; Amdt. 158-4, 72 FR 28849, May 23, 2007]