---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 U.S.C. § 41507"
title: "49"
title_heading: "Transportation"
number: "41507"
heading: "Authority of the Secretary of Transportation to change prices, classifications, rules, and practices for foreign air transportation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/49/41507"
units:
  - "Subtitle VII — Aviation Programs"
  - "Part A — Air Commerce and Safety"
  - "Subpart ii — economic regulation"
  - "Chapter 415 — Pricing"
---

# §41507. Authority of the Secretary of Transportation to change prices, classifications, rules, and practices for foreign air transportation

- (a) **General.—** When the Secretary of Transportation decides that a [price](/usc/49/40102.md?p=a-39) charged or received by an [air carrier](/usc/49/40102.md?p=a-2) or [foreign air carrier](/usc/49/40102.md?p=a-21) for [foreign air transportation](/usc/49/40102.md?p=a-23), or a classification, rule, or practice affecting that [price](/usc/49/40102.md?p=a-39) or the value of the transportation provided under that [price](/usc/49/40102.md?p=a-39), is or will be unreasonably discriminatory, the Secretary may—
  - (1) change the [price](/usc/49/40102.md?p=a-39), classification, rule, or practice as necessary to correct the discrimination; and
  - (2) order the [air carrier](/usc/49/40102.md?p=a-2) or [foreign air carrier](/usc/49/40102.md?p=a-21) to stop charging or collecting the discriminatory [price](/usc/49/40102.md?p=a-39) or carrying out the discriminatory classification, rule, or practice.
- (b) **When Secretary May Act.—** The Secretary may act under this section on the Secretary’s own initiative or on a complaint filed with the Secretary and only after notice and an opportunity for a hearing.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–272, § 1(e), July 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 1134.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 41507(a) | 49 App.:1482(f) (words after 4th comma). | Aug. 23, 1958, Pub. L. 85–726, § 1002(f), 72 Stat. 789. |
|  | 49 App.:1551(b)(1)(E). | Aug. 23, 1958, Pub. L. 85–726, 72 Stat. 731, § 1601(b)(1)(E); added Oct. 4, 1984, Pub. L. 98–443, § 3(e), 98 Stat. 1704. |
| 41507(b) | 49 App.:1482(f) (words before 4th comma). |  |
|  | 49 App.:1551(b)(1)(E). |  |

In subsection (a), before clause (1), the words “individual or joint” are omitted as surplus. The words “charged or received” are substituted for “demanded, charged, collected, or received” to eliminate unnecessary words. The words “unreasonably discriminatory” are substituted for “unjustly discriminatory, or unduly preferential, or unduly prejudicial” for consistency in the revised title and to eliminate unnecessary words. See the revision notes following 49:10101. In clause (2), the words “carrying out” are substituted for “enforcing” for clarity.

In subsection (b), the words “opportunity for a” are added for consistency in the revised title and with other titles of the United States Code.