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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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