---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 C.F.R. § 216.1"
title: "14"
number: "216.1"
heading: "Definitions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/14/216.1"
---

# §216.1. Definitions.

- (a) **As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires—** Blind sector traffic means revenue traffic, carried by a foreign air carrier on a flight operating in air transportation, which is enplaned at one foreign point and deplaned at another foreign point, where at least one of such points is not named as a terminal or intermediate point in the carrier's applicable foreign air carrier permit.

  Revenue traffic means persons, property or mail carried for compensation or hire.

- (b) Terms defined in [49 U.S.C. 40102](/usc/49/40102.md) have the meaning expressed in such definitions.

## Notes

### Amendments

[ER-525, 33 FR 692, Jan. 19, 1968, as amended by Doc. No. DOT-OST-2014-0140, 84 FR 15926, Apr. 16, 2019]

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. Chapters 401, 413, 417.

### Source

Source: ER-525, 33 FR 692, Jan. 19, 1968, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[ER-525, 33 FR 692, Jan. 19, 1968, as amended by Doc. No. DOT-OST-2014-0140, 84 FR 15926, Apr. 16, 2019]