---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 C.F.R. § 252.4"
title: "14"
number: "252.4"
heading: "Smoking ban: air carriers."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/14/252.4"
---

# §252.4. Smoking ban: air carriers.


Air carriers shall prohibit smoking on the following flights:

- (a) **Scheduled passenger flights.**
- (b) Nonscheduled passenger flights, except for the following flights where a flight attendant is not a required crewmember on the aircraft as determined by the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration:
  - (1) **Single entity charters.**
  - (2) **On-demand services of air taxi operators.**
- (c) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to require air carriers to permit smoking aboard aircraft.

## Notes

### Amendments

[Docket DOT-OST-2011-0044, 81 FR 11427, Mar. 4, 2016]

### Authority

Authority: Pub. L. 101-164; 49 U.S.C. 40102, 40109, 40113, 41701, 41702, 41706 as amended by section 708 of Pub. L. 106-181 and section 401 of Pub. L. 112-95, 41711, and 46301.

### Source

Source: Docket No. DOT-OST-2000-7473, 65 FR 36775, June 9, 2000, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[Docket DOT-OST-2011-0044, 81 FR 11427, Mar. 4, 2016]