[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 204 (Monday, October 23, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 54407]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-26213]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Office of the Secretary
[Docket No. OST-95-744]
Passenger Origin-Destination Survey Reports
AGENCY: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, DOT.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Transportation (DOT or the Department)
announces its intent to direct large certificated U.S. air carriers
that participate in code-sharing arrangements to report both the
ticketing and operating air carriers in their quarterly Passenger
Origin-Destination Survey reports. DOT needs the information to assess
accurately the benefits to both code-share parties, especially in
international code-share agreements.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bernie Stankus or Jack Calloway,
Office of Airline Information, K-25, Bureau of Transportation
Statistics, 400 Seventh Street SW., Washington, D.C., 20590 (202) 366-
4387 or 366-4383, respectively.
COMMENTS: Comments are due within 30 days and should be sent to Messrs.
Calloway or Stankus at the address listed above or to Desk Officer, for
the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Office of Management and
Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 10202, Washington, D.C.
20503.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Congress has urged the Department to analyze
more thoroughly the effects of international code sharing on air
transportation and U.S. carriers. In June 1995, the Secretary pledged
to expand monitoring the effects of code sharing in testimony before
the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Under the current Passenger Origin-Destination Survey (Survey)
reporting system, the Department has difficulty evaluating the benefits
received by U.S. and foreign air carriers from code-share arrangements.
As currently designed, the Survey does not identify both carriers on a
code-share ticket. The Survey identifies the carrier transporting the
passenger, but not the ticketing carrier (carrier of record on the
ticket).
To assess accurately the benefits to both parties in international
code-share agreements, DOT needs to know the ticketed carrier as well
as the transporting carrier for the various legs of the passenger's
flight. When a U.S. carrier transports a code-share passenger with a
ticket that has only a foreign carrier code, that ticket is reported by
the U.S. carrier as the transporting carrier. Since both carriers
receive economic benefits from code sharing, both carriers need to be
identified in the Survey for the Department to analyze correctly the
benefits from the code-share arrangement.
If both code-sharing partners are identified in the survey, it will
reduce the need for special reports, as now obtained from certain U.S.
carriers, regarding major code-share alliances.
We estimate a four-hour increase per response to report both the
ticketed and operating carrier and a one-time reprogramming burden of
200 hours per respondent. To simplify and provide uniformity in
reporting, we are requiring that both domestic and international code-
share flights be reported as prescribed above.
The reporting requirements associated with this notice are being
sent to the Office of Management and Budget for approval in accordance
with 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35 under OMB NO: 2139-0017. A copy of the
submission can be obtained by calling or writing Mssrs. Calloway or
Stankus at the address or telephone numbers listed above under FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
Issued in Washington, D.C. on October 17, 1995.
T.R. Lakshmanan,
Director, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, DOT.
[FR Doc. 95-26213 Filed 10-20-95; 8:45 am]
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