---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 U.S.C. § 41746"
title: "49"
title_heading: "Transportation"
number: "41746"
heading: "Tracking service"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/49/41746"
units:
  - "Subtitle VII — Aviation Programs"
  - "Part A — Air Commerce and Safety"
  - "Subpart ii — economic regulation"
  - "Chapter 417 — Operations of Carriers"
  - "Subchapter II — Small Community Air Service"
---

# §41746. Tracking service


The Secretary of Transportation shall require a carrier that provides essential air service to an [eligible place](/usc/49/41731.md?p=a-1) and that receives compensation for such service under this subchapter to report not less than semiannually—

- (1) the percentage of flights to and from the place that arrive on time as defined by the Secretary; and
- (2) such other information as the Secretary considers necessary to evaluate service provided to passengers traveling to and from such place.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 108–176, title IV, § 407, Dec. 12, 2003, 117 Stat. 2545.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section applicable only to fiscal years beginning after Sept. 30, 2003, except as otherwise specifically provided, see section 3 of Pub. L. 108–176, set out as an Effective Date of 2003 Amendment note under section 106 of this title.