Regulations last checked for updates: Apr 30, 2025

Title 14 - Aeronautics and Space last revised: Apr 02, 2025
§ 253.10 - Notice of contract of carriage choice-of-forum provisions.

No carrier may impose any contract of carriage provision containing a choice-of-forum clause that attempts to preclude a passenger, or a person who purchases a ticket for air transportation on behalf of a passenger, from bringing a claim against a carrier in any court of competent jurisdiction, including a court within the jurisdiction of that passenger's residence in the United States (provided that the carrier does business within that jurisdiction).

[Doc. No. DOT-OST-2010-0140, 76 FR 23163, Apr. 25, 2011]
source: ER-1302, 47 FR 52134, Nov. 19, 1982, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 14 CFR 253.10