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49 CFR § 1510.3 - Definitions.

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identifier: "/us/cfr/t49/s1510.3"
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legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "49 CFR § 1510.3 - Definitions."
title_number: 49
title_name: "Transportation"
section_number: "1510.3"
section_name: "Definitions."
chapter_name: "TRANSPORTATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY"
subchapter_number: "A"
subchapter_name: "ADMINISTRATIVE AND PROCEDURAL RULES"
part_number: "1510"
part_name: "PASSENGER CIVIL AVIATION SECURITY SERVICE FEES"
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currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
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generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "49 U.S.C. 114, 40113, and 44940."
regulatory_source: "66 FR 67701, Dec. 31, 2001, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "1510"
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# 1510.3 Definitions.

In addition to the definitions in §§ 1500.3, 1503.103, and 1540.5 of this chapter, the following terms are used in this part:

*Air carrier* means a citizen of the United States who undertakes directly to engage in or provide air transportation.

*Air transportation* means continental interstate air transportation, continental intrastate air transportation, foreign air transportation, non-continental interstate air transportation, or non-continental intrastate air transportation.

*Aircraft* means a device that is used or intended to be used for flight in the air.

*Airport* means any landing area used regularly by aircraft for receiving or discharging passengers or cargo.

*Continental interstate air transportation* means the carriage by aircraft of persons for compensation or hire within the continental United States.

*Continental intrastate air transportation* means the carriage by aircraft of persons for compensation or hire wholly within the same state of the continental United States.

*Continental United States* means the District of Columbia and the States other than Alaska and Hawaii.

*Co-terminal* means an airport serving a multi-airport city or metropolitan area that has been approved by TSA to be used as the same point for purposes of determining application of the security service fee imposed under § 1510.5 of this part. Copies of the approved list are available on TSA's Web site at *www.tsa.gov* or by contacting *[email protected].*

*Direct air carrier and foreign air carrier* means a selling carrier.

*Foreign air carrier* means any person other than a citizen of the United States who undertakes directly to engage in or provide air transportation.

*Foreign air transportation* means the carriage by aircraft of persons for compensation or hire between a place in the United States and any place outside of the United States.

*Frequent flyer award* means a zero-fare award of air transportation that a domestic air carrier or foreign air carrier provides to a passenger in exchange for accumulated travel mileage credits in a customer loyalty program, whether or not the term frequent flyer is used in the definition of that program.

*Non-continental interstate air transportation* means the carriage by aircraft of persons for compensation or hire within the United States, but outside the continental United States.

*Non-continental intrastate air transportation* means the carriage by aircraft of persons for compensation or hire wholly within the same state, territory or possession of the United States, but outside the continental United States.

*Nonrevenue passenger* means a passenger receiving air transportation from an air carrier or foreign air carrier for which the air carrier or foreign air carrier does not receive remuneration.

*One-way trip* means continuous air transportation, during which a stopover does not occur; there may be multiple one-way trips on the same air travel itinerary.

*Origin point* means the location at which a trip on a complete air travel itinerary begins.

*Principal* means the aggregate amount of all passenger security services fees due to be remitted to the Transportation Security Administration by an air carrier as required by this part.

*Round trip* means a trip on an air travel itinerary that terminates or has a stopover at the origin point (or co-terminal).

*Selling carrier* means an air carrier or foreign air carrier that provides or offers to provide air transportation and has control over the operational functions performed in providing that air transportation.

*Stopover* means a break in travel of more than:

(1) Four (4) hours for continental interstate air transportation or continental intrastate air transportation, and

(2) Twelve (12) hours for non-continental interstate air transportation, non-continental intrastate air transportation, or foreign air transportation.

*Terminates* means the location at which a trip on a complete air travel itinerary ends.

[66 FR 67701, Dec. 31, 2001, as amended at 68 FR 49720, Aug. 19, 2003; 79 FR 35473, June 20, 2014; 80 FR 31857, June 4, 2015]