1022
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
No. 51

“Area 1” means the area comprising North, Central, and South America and their adjacent islands; Greenland; Bermuda, the West Indies, and the other islands of the Caribbean Sea;
“Area 2” means the area comprising Africa and its adjacent islands (including the Azores, St. Helena, Tristan da Cunha, and Madagascar); Europe (including that part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics lying west of the Ural Mountains) and its adjacent islands (including Iceland); Iran, and that part of Asia and its adjacent islands lying west of Iran;
“Area 3” means the area comprising all those areas of land outside Area 1 and Area 2 other than Antarctica;
“Around the world travel” means circle-trip travel in a continuously eastbound or westbound direction around the world;
“Child” means a person who has attained the age of 2 years but has not attained the age of 12 years;
“Circle-trip travel” means transportation, returning to the point from which it commenced in a continuous circuitous route, comprising either—
(a) Travel by air; or
(b) Travel by air and, to the extent only that there is no reasonably direct scheduled air service between any 2 consecutive points on that route, some other form of transportation between those 2 points;
“Commission Regime” means the Civil Aviation (Passenger Agents’ Commission Regime) Notice 1983*;
“Conjunction ticket” means a ticket issued in respect of a portion only of any travel in respect of which it is impossible, because of the length or other characteristics of that travel, to issue a single ticket;
“Day” means any day of the week;
“Earlier notice” means a specific tariff that has been revoked by this notice or by an earlier notice;
“Economy-class travel” means travel in a seat that—
(a) If facing the rear of another seat, has a pitch of not more than 34 inches; and
(b) If facing a bulkhead, has not more than 22 inches between its front edge and that bulkhead when that seat is in an upright position; and
(c) If facing the front of another seat, has not more than 25 inches between its front edge and the front edge of the other seat when both are in the upright position; and
(d) Is in a row of not less than—
(i) Nine seats abreast, in the case of a Boeing 747 aircraft;
(ii) Eight seats abreast in the case of an A.300, a Douglas DC 10, or a Lockheed 1011 aircraft;
(iii) Six seats abreast, in the case of a BAC 111, a Boeing 707/729, a Boeing 727, a Boeing 737, or a Douglas DC 8 aircraft;
(iv) Five seats in any other case;
“FCU” means fare construction unit; and “FCU’s” means fare construction units;
“FCU fare”, in relation to any fare specified in or derived from a relevant tariff, means a fare—
(a) Specified in; or
(b) Derived from a formula or figures, —
specified in that tariff to be capable of being derived from FCU’s (whether or not also specified in the currency or currencies of one or more states);
“FIATA” means the International Federation of Freight Forwarders Association Airfreight Institute;
“First-class sleeper seat” means a seat (facing the rear of another seat) that has a pitch of more than 42 inches and less than 62 inches;
“First-class travel” means travel in a seat (facing the rear of another seat) that has a pitch of more than 41 inches;
“Gateway point”, in relation to any travel, means any scheduled stopping point on the route of that travel that is—
(a) The last point of departure from any country; or
(b) The first point of arrival in any country;—
but in the case of travel to, from, or via, Canada or the United States of America does not include any point outside North America;
“IATA” means the International Air Travel Association:
“Inaugural flight”—
(a) In relation to a new service within Area 1, means any 2 flights of that service in each direction; and
(b) In relation to any other new service, means any 4 flights of that service in each direction, —
commencing within 12 months of the commencement of that service, and designated by the carrier concerned as inaugural flights;
“Incentive group” means a group of persons—
(a) Comprising only employees, dealers, or agents of the same business, firm, corporation, or other enterprise (not being a non-profit enterprise) travelling under an established incentive programme that rewards them for past work or provides an incentive for further activities; and
(b) Having all been employees, dealers, or agents, of that enterprise at the time application was made for the travel concerned; and
(c) To whom there is not passed on or to be passed on, directly or indirectly, any part of the costs relating to that travel or any associated accommodation, sightseeing, entertainment, or other feature;—
and includes—
(d) A spouse of any such person who was that person’s spouse at the time application was made for the travel concerned; and
(e) Any official of that enterprise travelling for the purpose of making awards or taking part in the incentive travel programme, and the spouse of any such official;
“Inclusive tour” means a combination of travel and some other service or services (not comprising solely surface transportation on a public transport service);
“Infant” means a person who has not attained the age of 2 years;
“Interline transfer” means a transfer between aircraft of different carriers;
“Intermediate-class travel” means travel in a seat that—
(a) If facing the rear of another seat, has a pitch of more than 34 inches and not more than 38 inches; and
(b) If facing a bulkhead has not more than 24 inches between its front edge and that bulkhead when that seat is in the upright position; and
(c) Is in a row of fewer seats than the number specified in paragraph (d) of the definition in this subclause of the term “economy-class travel” in respect of the class of aircraft concerned;
“Local currency fare”, in relation to any fare specified in or derived from a relevant tariff, means a fare—
(a) Specified in; or
(b) Derived from a formula or figures, —
specified only in the currency or currencies of one or more states, and not specified in that tariff to be capable of being derived from FCU’s;
“Maximum validity”, in relation to any ticket, means the period after its issue during which that ticket remains valid for both the travel to which it relates and the refunds (if any) to which any person may be entitled in respect of it;
“MCO” means a miscellaneous charges order;
“Member of the immediate family”, in relation to any person, means any other person who is that person’s spouse, child (whether natural or adopted), stepchild, parent, brother or sister (whether of the whole or half blood), or grandparent, and includes any other person who is—
(a) A member of the immediate family of that person’s spouse; and
(b) A child (whether natural or adopted) or stepchild of that person’s child (whether natural or adopted) or stepchild;
“Minimum validity”, in relation to any ticket, means a period after the completion of the outward portion of the travel to which it relates that must elapse before any part of the return portion of that travel may commence;
“Miscellaneous charges order” means a passenger service coupon covering payments to be made in connection with any travel, issued as part of a composite folder that before issue included—
(a) An audit coupon; and
(b) An issuing office coupon; and
(c) Exchange coupons (not exceeding 4 in number) each of which expresses, in the currency of the country in which payment was made, either the value or maximum value of any payments to be made for the purpose or purposes specified in that coupon or a maximum value of any payments to be made that does not exceed the equivalent of US$350, and includes any such folder from which any of those coupons has been removed after issue;
“Modification”, in relation to any inclusive tour, means any change to any part of, or any condition applicable to, that tour.
“Month” means a calendar month;
“Normal fare”, in relation to any travel on a route at a particular class of service, means the highest available lawful fare at which that travel may be undertaken on that route at that class of service;
“North America” means that area comprising Canada and the continental United States of America;
“New service”, in relation to any carrier, means—
(a) The provision of travel by that carrier by scheduled flights—
(i) Over a route over which that carrier was not previously providing travel by scheduled flights; or
(ii) Over a route that is an extension of a route over which that carrier was previously providing travel by scheduled flights; or
(iii) Between points between which that carrier was previously providing travel by scheduled flights, but via one or more intermediate points not

*Gazette, 1983, p. 3039