---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 C.F.R. § 297.12"
title: "14"
number: "297.12"
heading: "General requirements."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/14/297.12"
---

# §297.12. General requirements.

- (a) The direct air transportation provided must be performed by direct air carriers that hold authority under section [41102](/cfr/14/41102.md), [41103](/cfr/14/41103.md), [41302](/cfr/14/41302.md), or [41701](/cfr/14/41701.md) of 49 U.S.C. Subtitle VII or are operating under [part 298](/cfr/14/part298.md) of this chapter;
- (b) Only U.S. citizen direct air carriers may provide direct air transportation operations in interstate air transportation.
- (c) Foreign indirect air carriers that hold authority to engage in foreign air transportation must apply additionally for permission to consolidate freight in interstate air transportation.

## Notes

### Amendments

[ER-1294, 47 FR 19684, May 7, 1982, as amended at 60 FR 43527, Aug. 22, 1995; DOT-OST-2014-0140, 84 FR 15934, Apr. 16, 2019]

### Authority

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

### Source

Source: ER-1159, 44 FR 69635, Dec. 4, 1979, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[ER-1294, 47 FR 19684, May 7, 1982, as amended at 60 FR 43527, Aug. 22, 1995; DOT-OST-2014-0140, 84 FR 15934, Apr. 16, 2019]