---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 C.F.R. § 375.35"
title: "14"
number: "375.35"
heading: "Free transportation."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/14/375.35"
---

# §375.35. Free transportation.

- (a) Foreign civil aircraft may be navigated in the United States by a foreign air carrier for the transportation of persons and property specified in [paragraph (b)](#b) of this section over the following non-traffic segments provided such transportation is not for compensation or hire:
  - (1) Between two or more points in the United States;
  - (2) Between a point in the United States named in the carrier's [section 41301](/cfr/14/41301.md) permit or exemption, and a point outside the United States not so named, when authorized in accordance with the provisions of [part 216](/cfr/14/part216.md) of this chapter to carry blind sector traffic to or from such unnamed foreign point; and
  - (3) Between a point in the United States and a point outside thereof when the carrier lands at the United States point for non-traffic purposes in exercise of the privilege granted under the International Air Services Transit Agreement.
- (b) Free transportation may be provided under this section for the following categories of persons and property:
  - (1) Directors, officers and employees, and their parents and immediate families, of the foreign air carrier operating the aircraft;
  - (2) Directors, officers and employees, and their parents and immediate families, of an air carrier or another foreign air carrier traveling pursuant to a pass interchange arrangement;
  - (3) Travel agents being transported for the purpose of familiarizing themselves with the carrier's services, if the agents are under no obligation to sell the transporting carrier's services;
  - (4) Witnesses and attorneys attending any legal investigation in which any such foreign air carrier is involved;
  - (5) Persons injured in aircraft accidents and physicians and nurses attending such persons;
  - (6) Any persons or property with the object of providing relief in cases of general epidemic, natural disaster or other catastrophe;
  - (7) Any person who has the duty of guarding foreign government officials travelling on official business; and
  - (8) Guests of a foreign air carrier (including members of the press) on delivery flights of newly-acquired or newly-renovated aircraft.
- (c) A charge reasonably related to the value of meals and beverages furnished enroute shall not be deemed to constitute compensation or hire for purposes of this section.

## Notes

### Amendments

[OST Doc. No. 42547, 51 FR 7254, Mar. 3, 1986, as amended by Doc. No. DOT-OST-2014-0140, 84 FR 15940, Apr. 16, 2019]

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 40102, 40103, and 41703.

### Source

Source: OST Doc. No. 42547, 51 FR 7254, Mar. 3, 1986, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[OST Doc. No. 42547, 51 FR 7254, Mar. 3, 1986, as amended by Doc. No. DOT-OST-2014-0140, 84 FR 15940, Apr. 16, 2019]