[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 98 (Monday, May 23, 1994)]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 94-12513]
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[Federal Register: May 23, 1994]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
[Ref. Docket 43232]
Office of the Secretary
Prohibition on the Sale of Passenger Air Transportation to
Lebanon
Notice reaffirming the restriction prohibiting the sale, in the
United States, of passenger air transportation to Lebanon. We are
publishing this notice in its entirety as an appendix to this document.
DATE: Issued in Washington, DC, May 17, 1994.
Patrick V. Murphy,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Aviation and International Affairs.
Notice
As a result of foreign air carriers adding service to Beirut,
Lebanon, over the past few years, the Department has increased its
monitoring activities relating to the air transportation restrictions
put in place with regard to Lebanon in 1985. This has led to the
issuance of a number of consent cease and desist orders and the
assessment of substantial civil penalties for violations of these
restrictions. Investigations of possible violations by a number of
other airlines and travel agents are continuing.
By this Notice, we once again take the opportunity to reaffirm the
restrictions that were put in place as a result of security concerns by
Department Order 85-7-45, as modified by Order 92-8-25. Specifically,
it is a condition of all certificates held by U.S. air carriers, all
permits held by foreign air carriers and all exemptions from sections
401 and 402 of the Federal Aviation Act that the holder shall not sell
in the United States any passenger transportation by air which includes
any type of stop in Lebanon. The Department has consistently
interpreted this restriction to apply to all sales activities in the
United States by air carriers and their agents, including travel
agents, consolidators, wholesalers and other third parties, that are
utilized to transact such sales. This prohibition includes any activity
undertaken in the United States that effectuates the sale of such air
transportation and includes, but is not limited to, reservations made
in the United States by any air carrier or its agents by mail,
overnight express, courier, telephone, facsimile or other means to any
air carrier or its agents, including travel agents, consolidators,
wholesalers and other third parties, located outside the United States
that results in the issuance of a passenger ticket or the confirmation
of a reservation for passenger air transportation to Lebanon.
The fact that a ticket for air transportation is issued outside the
U.S. is not dispositive of whether the sale of that ticket was made in
the U.S. Thus, for example, a travel agent receiving reimbursement in
the U.S. for a passenger ticket for air transportation service to
Lebanon, who obtains that ticket through an airline or consolidator in
Canada, would be in violation of the Department's Lebanon restrictions.
Likewise, an airline that accepts a U.S. telephone purchase in Canada
for air transportation to Lebanon, with ticket delivery in the U.S.,
would also violate our Lebanon restrictions. These agents and airlines
would be subject to the imposition of substantial civil penalties.
Moreover, criminal prosecution could result from knowing and willful
violations of the law.
This Notice shall be published in the Federal Register and shall be
served on all certificated air carriers, all foreign air carriers, the
United States Departments of State and Justice, the Air Transport
Association, the International Air Transport Association, the National
Air Carrier Association, the American Society of Travel Agents, and the
Association of Retail Travel Agents.
By:
Dated: May 17, 1994.
Patrick V. Murphy,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs.
[FR Doc. 94-12513 Filed 5-20-94; 8:45 am]
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