Bryant Normally that flight would have been operated under FAR Part 91 rather than FAR Part 121 (Normal Air Carrier FAR). Under FAR 121 as I understand it if there were more than 25-30 passengers (rev or non-rev) flight attendents would be required. It may have been an insurance requirement that the passengers were asked the question. Al . ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bryant Petitt" <skyshirts@xxxxxxxxx> To: <AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 8:55 AM Subject: Re: no traffic rights/airline staff right (was fifth freedom rights) > ...This is kinda off the topic, but one time as a gate > agent for DL, I helped dispatch a Ferry flight that > had DL non-revs on it (no revenue PAX). No Flight > Attendants, but someone had to come on before the > flight was dispatched, and as I remember they all had > to say that they were aware of the Emergency > Procedures, etc. > > I don't know if this followed the rules or not, but > the plane sure was dispatched without F/A's. > > Interesting, and that was the only instance I was > involved in that particular scenario..... > > Bryant Petitt > Cumming, GA > > --- Mike Tobin <mtobin@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > I thought an airline couldn't even carry staff > > if they didn't have > > > > traffic rights? > > > > > yes I thinks JAL,KAL and Singapore have flights > > NYC to Anchorage > > > (ANC)-Tokyo /Singapore/Seoul > > > (depending on which airline we are talking about > > > and I belive all of them have a crew based in ANC > > > > JAL used to have pax flights between NYC and Tokyo > > that stopped in ANC. No local traffic rights between > > ANC and JFK, but non-revs could fly it. Great > > nonstop service. Now JAL flight numbers 5 and 6 fly > > overhead ANC nonstop between the two bigger cities. > > Korean at times has had pax flights from ANC to the > > east or midwest that non-revs could board. Singapore > > just has freighters through ANC so no pax > > opportunities. All 3 have major freighter operations > > via ANC where crew changes occur, but as far as I > > know, Singapore doesn't base any in ANC. > > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail >