LL ROUTES
, connecting, and local traffic mn C and between points in airlines may carry transit and blumn C and points in other umns B or D. Such on-line ts in columns A, B, C or D or
imns.
and on-line connecting traffic other Contracting Party which route for which that airline is
provided, a designated airline serve points on a route and C or D in any order, operate at any point or points, without therwise permissible under the vided that the service begins or Party designating the airline. appearing in column B shall be a point in column D shall be
tween points in column A and se, via points in other countries,
behind any homeland gateway ge of aircraft or flight number the public as through services.
Party may make a change of Party or at points in column B vided that:
gauge shall be performed by an bound services, or more, for
aircraft;
eduled in coincidence with the se may be, and shall have the
hly, the onward flight, inbound be scheduled to depart within the incoming aircraft, unless operational constraints, at the at the next point or points of heduling; and
tional or mechanical problems, t regard to the conditions in
7. Stops for non-traffic purposes may be made at any point in connection with the operations on any route.
8. Notwithstanding the terms of Notes 1, 4 and 7 of this Section, US designated airlines serving Hong Kong shall not make stops for traffic or non-traffic purposes at any point or points in the mainland territory of the People's Republic of China.
*
9. In these Notes:
64
Transit traffic
means that traffic which is carried on a flight through a point. Flight, for the purpose of this definition, means either:
(a) The arrival and onward operation of an aircraft by an airline whether or
not under the same flight identification number, or
(b) the arrival of one aircraft and next onward operation of another aircraft under the same flight identification number, as otherwise allowable under this Agreement, including Note 6 of this Section; and
66
On-line connecting traffic means that traffic which is carried on an incoming flight of an airline and is transferred to an onward flight of the same airline under a different flight identification number. For passengers only, the onward transfer shall be ticketed on the first available onward flight of that airline for the point to which a passenger is connecting, provided that the time between the scheduled arrival of the incoming flight and the scheduled departure of the onward flight does not exceed 24 hours.