Regulations last checked for updates: Dec 17, 2025

Title 14 - Aeronautics and Space last revised: Nov 03, 2025
§ 271.2 - Definitions.

As used in this part:

Eligible place means a place in the United States that meets the specified criteria outlined in 49 U.S.C. Chapter 417.

Essential air service is that air transportation which the Department has found to be essential under Subchapter II of Chapter 417 of the Statute.

[60 FR 43524, Aug. 22, 1995, as amended by Doc. No. DOT-OST-2014-0140, 84 FR 15933, Apr. 16, 2019]
authority: 49 U.S.C. Chapters 401, 417
source: ER-1398, 49 FR 49846, Dec. 24, 1984, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 14 CFR 271.2