Section 121.467

14 CFR Ch. I (1-1-19 Edition)

(1) No certificate holder conducting
domestic or flag operations may schedule a dispatcher for more than 10 consecutive hours of duty;
(2) If a dispatcher is scheduled for
more than 10 hours of duty in 24 consecutive hours, the certificate holder
shall provide him or her a rest period
of at least eight hours at or before the
end of 10 hours of duty.
(3) Each dispatcher must be relieved
of all duty with the certificate holder
for at least 24 consecutive hours during
any seven consecutive days or the
equivalent thereof within any calendar
month.
(c) Notwithstanding paragraphs (a)
and (b) of this section, a certificate
holder conducting flag operations may,
if authorized by the Administrator,
schedule an aircraft dispatcher at a
duty station outside of the 48 contiguous States and the District of Columbia, for more than 10 consecutive hours
of duty in a 24-hour period if that aircraft dispatcher is relieved of all duty
with the certificate holder for at least
eight hours during each 24-hour period.
[Doc. No. 28154, 61 FR 2612, Jan. 26, 1996]

Section 121.467 Flight attendant duty period
limitations and rest requirements:
Domestic, flag, and supplemental
operations.
(a) For purposes of this section - 
Calendar day means the period of
elapsed time, using Coordinated Universal Time or local time, that begins
at midnight and ends 24 hours later at
the next midnight.
Duty period means the period of
elapsed time between reporting for an
assignment involving flight time and
release from that assignment by the
certificate holder conducting domestic,
flag, or supplemental operations. The
time is calculated using either Coordinated Universal Time or local time to
reflect the total elapsed time.
Flight attendant means an individual,
other than a flight crewmember, who is
assigned by a certificate holder conducting domestic, flag, or supplemental operations, in accordance with
the required minimum crew complement under the certificate holder-s
operations specifications or in addition
to that minimum complement, to duty
in an aircraft during flight time and

whose duties include but are not necessarily limited to cabin-safety-related
responsibilities.
Rest period means the period free of
all restraint or duty for a certificate
holder conducting domestic, flag, or
supplemental operations and free of all
responsibility for work or duty should
the occasion arise.
(b) Except as provided in paragraph
(c) of this section, a certificate holder
conducting domestic, flag, or supplemental operations may assign a duty
period to a flight attendant only when
the applicable duty period limitations
and rest requirements of this paragraph are met.
(1) Except as provided in paragraphs
(b)(4), (b)(5), and (b)(6) of this section,
no certificate holder conducting domestic, flag, or supplemental operations may assign a flight attendant to
a scheduled duty period of more than 14
hours.
(2) Except as provided in paragraph
(b)(3) of this section, a flight attendant
scheduled to a duty period of 14 hours
or less as provided under paragraph
(b)(1) of this section must be given a
scheduled rest period of at least 9 consecutive hours. This rest period must
occur between the completion of the
scheduled duty period and the commencement of the subsequent duty period.
(3) The rest period required under
paragraph (b)(2) of this section may be
scheduled or reduced to 8 consecutive
hours if the flight attendant is provided a subsequent rest period of at
least 10 consecutive hours; this subsequent rest period must be scheduled to
begin no later than 24 hours after the
beginning of the reduced rest period
and must occur between the completion of the scheduled duty period and
the commencement of the subsequent
duty period.
(4) A certificate holder conducting
domestic, flag, or supplemental operations may assign a flight attendant to
a scheduled duty period of more than 14
hours, but no more than 16 hours, if the
certificate holder has assigned to the
flight or flights in that duty period at
least one flight attendant in addition
to the minimum flight attendant complement required for the flight or
flights in that duty period under the

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