§ 41511. Special prices for foreign air transportation

• (a) This chapter does not prohibit an air carrier or foreign air carrier, under terms the Secretary of Transportation prescribes, from issuing or interchanging tickets or passes for free or reduced-price foreign air transportation to or for the following:
  • (1) a director, officer, or employee of the carrier (including a retired director, officer, or employee who is receiving retirement benefits from an air carrier or foreign air carrier).
  • (2) a parent or the immediate family of such an officer or employee or the immediate family of such a director.
  • (3) a widow, widower, or minor child of an employee of the carrier who died as a direct result of a personal injury sustained when performing a duty in the service of the carrier.
  • (4) a witness or attorney attending a legal investigation in which the air carrier is interested.
  • (5) an individual injured in an aircraft accident and a physician or nurse attending the individual.
  • (6) a parent or the immediate family of an individual injured or killed in an aircraft accident when the transportation is related to the accident.
  • (7) an individual or property to provide relief in a general epidemic, pestilence, or other emergency.
  • (8) other individuals under other circumstances the Secretary prescribes by regulation.
• (b) Under terms the Secretary prescribes, an air carrier or foreign air carrier may grant reduced-price foreign air transportation on a space-available basis to the following:
  • (1) a minister of religion.
  • (2) an individual who is at least 60 years of age and no longer gainfully employed.
  • (3) an individual who is at least 65 years of age.
  • (4) an individual who has severely impaired vision or hearing or another physical or mental disability and an accompanying attendant needed by that individual.