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14 CFR Ch. I (1–1–19 Edition) 

§ 158.3 

date such proceeding was filed to ob-
tain dismissal of the involuntary peti-
tion before becoming a covered air car-
rier. An air carrier ceases to be a cov-
ered air carrier when it emerges from 
bankruptcy protection. 

Covered airport 

means a medium or 

large hub airport at which one or two 
air carriers control more than 50 per-
cent of passenger boardings. 

Debt service 

means payments for such 

items as principal and interest, sinking 
funds, call premiums, periodic credit 
enhancement fees, trustee and paying 
agent fees, coverage, and remarketing 
fees. 

Exclusive long-term lease or use agree-

ment 

means an exclusive lease or use 

agreement between a public agency and 
an air carrier or foreign air carrier 
with a term of 5 years or more. 

FAA Airports office 

means a regional, 

district or field office of the Federal 
Aviation Administration that admin-
isters Federal airport-related matters. 

Financial need 

means that a public 

agency cannot meet its operational or 
debt service obligations and does not 
have at least a 2-month capital reserve 
fund. 

Frequent flier award coupon 

means a 

zero-fare award of air transportation 
that an air carrier or foreign air car-
rier provides to a passenger in ex-
change for accumulated travel mileage 
credits in a customer loyalty program, 
whether or not the term ‘‘frequent 
flier’’ is used in the definition of that 
program. The definition of ‘‘frequent 
flier award coupon’’ does not extend to 
redemption of accumulated credits for 
awards of additional or upgraded serv-
ice on trips for which the passenger has 
paid a published fare, ‘‘two-for-the- 
price-of-one’’ and similar marketing 
programs, or to air transportation pur-
chased for a passenger by other parties. 

Ground support equipment 

means serv-

ice and maintenance equipment used at 
an airport to support aeronautical op-
erations and related activities. Bag-
gage tugs, belt loaders, cargo loaders, 
forklifts, fuel trucks, lavatory trucks, 
and pushback tractors are among the 
types of vehicles that fit this defini-
tion. 

Implementation of an approved project 

means: (1) With respect to construc-
tion, issuance to a contractor of notice 

to proceed or the start of physical con-
struction; (2) with respect to non-
construction projects other than prop-
erty acquisition, commencement of 
work by a contractor or public agency 
to carry out the statement of work; or 
(3) with respect to property acquisition 
projects, commencement of title 
search, surveying, or appraisal for a 
significant portion of the property to 
be acquired. 

Issuing carrier 

means any air carrier 

or foreign air carrier that issues an air 
travel ticket or whose imprinted ticket 
stock is used in issuing such ticket by 
an agent. 

Medium or large hub airport 

means a 

commercial service airport that has 
more than 0.25 percent of the total 
number of passenger boardings at all 
such airports in the U.S. for the prior 
calendar year, as determined by the 
Administrator. 

Non-hub airport 

means a commercial 

service airport (as defined in 49 U.S.C. 
47102) that has less than 0.05 percent of 
the passenger boardings in the U.S. in 
the prior calendar year on an aircraft 
in service in air commerce. 

Nonrevenue passenger 

means a pas-

senger receiving air transportation 
from an air carrier or foreign air car-
rier for which remuneration is not re-
ceived by the air carrier or foreign air 
carrier as defined under Department of 
Transportation Regulations or as oth-
erwise determined by the Adminis-
trator. Air carrier employees or others 
receiving air transportation against 
whom token service charges are levied 
are considered nonrevenue passengers. 
Infants for whom a token fare is 
charged are also considered nonrevenue 
passengers. 

Notice of intent (to impose or use PFC 

revenue) 

means a notice under § 158.30 

from a public agency controlling a non- 
hub airport that it intends to impose a 
PFC and/or use PFC revenue. Except 
for §§ 158.25 through 30, ‘‘notice of in-
tent’’ can be used interchangeably with 
‘‘application.’’ 

One-way trip 

means any trip that is 

not a round trip. 

Passenger enplaned 

means a domestic, 

territorial or international revenue 
passenger enplaned in the States in 
scheduled or nonscheduled service on 

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