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REPORTING INSTRUCTIONS

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Part II — Personnel

Categories of personnel (Column a)

Pilots and co-pilots. Self-explanatory.

Other flight crew. Flight engineers should be included here.

Cabin crew. Self-explanatory.

Maintenance and overhaul personnel. Ground personnel, including supervisory, planning and inspection

personnel at maintenance and overhaul shops, should be reported. Stores and supplies personnel,

timekeepers and accounting personnel at overhaul and maintenance shops should also be included.

Report separately:

a) licensed aircraft maintenance engineers; and

b) other maintenance and overhaul personnel.

Note that for licensing purposes some States use the terms mechanic or technician instead of the term

engineer with regard to maintenance.

Ticketing and sales personnel. Report under this heading personnel engaged in ticketing, sales and

promotional activities.

All other personnel. Report under this heading personnel not included in any of the above five

categories, such as administrative personnel at headquarters.

Number of personnel (Columns b and c). Report data concerning all personnel, temporary or permanent,

on the payroll of the air carrier at the middle and end of the year being reported. Part-time staff should be

included in the total, prorated to the amount of time worked when compared with the time worked by full-

time personnel (i.e. two part-time staff working half-time are equivalent to one full-time staff).

Total annual expenditures for each category of personnel (Column d). Report the total annual

expenditures for the salaries and allowances of all employees in each of the six categories. Gross salary

(before deduction of income tax, pension, social welfare and voluntary payments), overtime pay, flying pay,

and subsistence allowances, such as cost-of-living, station and overseas allowances should be included.

Expenses for travelling, moving, training, uniforms, etc., should not be included. Please report the currency

in which the figures have been given.

DEFINITION OF TERMS USED

Blocked-off charters. The whole capacity of an aircraft is blocked off for charter sale on flights published

as scheduled flights but carried out as charter flights on the same or similar routing and operating time.

Blocked-space arrangements. A number of passenger seats and/or specified cargo space purchased by

an air carrier for the carriage of its traffic on an aircraft of a second air carrier.

Code sharing. The use of the flight designator code of one air carrier on a service performed by a second

air carrier, which service is usually also identified (and may be required to be identified) as a service of, and

being performed by, the second air carrier.

Combination “combi” aircraft (Code M). A transport aircraft capable of carrying both passengers and

cargo on the main deck, often in varied configurations.

Flight stage. A flight stage is the operation of an aircraft from take-off to its next landing.

Franchising. The granting by an air carrier of a franchise or right to use various of its corporate identity

elements (such as its flight designator code, livery and marketing symbols) to a franchisee, i.e. the entity

granted the franchise to market or deliver its air service product, typically subject to standards and controls

intended to maintain the quality desired by the franchiser, i.e. the entity granting the franchise.

Freighter aircraft (Code F). A freighter or all-cargo aircraft is an aircraft configured for the carriage of freight

only (although persons who accompany certain kinds of cargo, such as livestock, may also be carried).

Joint service flight. A flight identified by the designator codes of two air carriers that, with the concurrence

of their respective States, typically have agreed with each other to share revenues and/or costs.

FLEET AND PERSONNEL — COMMERCIAL AIR CARRIERS

FORM D

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