---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 C.F.R. § 223.22"
title: "14"
number: "223.22"
heading: "Other persons to whom free and reduced-rate transportation may be furnished."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/14/223.22"
---

# §223.22. Other persons to whom free and reduced-rate transportation may be furnished.


Air carriers and foreign air carriers are exempted from 49 U.S.C. [41510](/usc/49/41510.md) and [41310(b)](/usc/49/41310.md?p=b) and [part 221](/cfr/14/part221.md) of this chapter to the extent necessary to provide free or reduced-rate foreign air transportation, including passes, to the following:

- (a) Directors, officers, employees, and retirees and members of their immediate families, of any carrier or of any affiliate of such carrier, subject to the requirements of [§ 223.25](/cfr/14/223.25.md).
- (b) Persons to whom the carrier is required to furnish such transportation by law or government directive or by a contract or agreement between the carrier and the government of any country served by the carrier. The Department may, without prior notice, direct the carrier to file a tariff covering such transportation if it finds that the law or government directive in question requires the provision of such transportation. This transportation may be provided only if:
  - (1) The contract or agreement is filed with the Department, and it is not disapproved by the Department; and
  - (2) The law or government directive does not require the furnishing of such transportation to the general public or any segment thereof.
- (c) Technical representatives of companies that have been engaged in the manufacture, development or testing of a particular type of aircraft or aircraft equipment, when the transportation is provided for the purposes of in-flight observation, and subject to applicable regulations of the Federal Aviation Administration such as regulations pertaining to admission of persons to the aircraft flight deck.
- (d) Any person in return for goods or services provided by such person whether the transportation is used by that person or any designee of such person;
- (e) Persons engaged in promoting transportation and their immediate families, when such transportation is undertaken for a promotional purpose;
- (f) Persons being transported on an inaugural flight or delivery flight of the carrier except that, in the case of delivery flights, this exemption extends only to free, and not reduced-rate, transportation;
- (g) Any law-enforcement official, including any person who has the duty of guarding government officials traveling on official business against unlawful interference;
- (h) As compensation to persons that file a complaint or claim against the carrier;
- (i) Charitable organizations; and
- (j) Any person in an aviation-related occupation when the transportation is provided for the purpose of technical in-flight observation.

## Notes

### Amendments

[ER-1371, 48 FR 57118, Dec. 28, 1983, as amended by Doc. No. DOT-OST-2014-0140, 84 FR 15930, Apr. 16, 2019]

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 40113, 40114, and 41711.

### Source

Source: ER-1371, 48 FR 57118, Dec. 28, 1983, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[ER-1371, 48 FR 57118, Dec. 28, 1983, as amended by Doc. No. DOT-OST-2014-0140, 84 FR 15930, Apr. 16, 2019]