As used in this Contract of Carriage, the following terms, whether or not capitalized, shall have the meanings ascribed below:
TERMS | DEFINITION |
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Adult | A person who has reached his/her eighteenth birthday as of the date of commencement of travel. |
Animals | To include domestic pets (dogs and cats) as well as reptiles, birds and fish. |
Baggage | Such reasonable articles, effects and other personal property of a ticketed Passenger as are reasonably necessary or appropriate for the wear, use, comfort or convenience of the Passenger in connection with the Passenger’s trip. Unless otherwise specified, it shall include both checked and unchecked baggage and property of the Passenger. |
Baggage Check or Baggage Claim Tag | Those portions of the ticket or Baggage Tag that identify the carriage of a Passenger’s checked baggage and that are issued by the carrier as a receipt for the Passenger’s checked baggage. |
Baggage Tag | A document issued by the carrier solely for identification of checked baggage, the portion of which is attached by the carrier to a particular article of checked baggage. |
Cabin Baggage | Carry-On-Baggage that due to its size and nature requires the purchase of a seat on board the aircraft to transport the piece of baggage. |
Calendar Month | The period from a day of one month going on to the corresponding day of the next month if such day exists; if not, then to the last day of the next month. |
Calendar Week | A period of seven days starting at 12:01 a.m. Sunday and ending at midnight of the following Saturday, provided that when used in reference to service offered only once a week between points of travel, it shall mean a period of eight days commencing with 12:01 a.m. on the day the flight operates. |
Carriage | Transportation of Passengers and their baggage by air or ground, either gratuitously or for payment. |
Carrier | The carrier (air or ground) issuing the ticket and all carriers that carry or undertake to carry the Passenger and/or his baggage there under. |
Carry-on Baggage | Baggage, other than Checked Baggage, carried on board an aircraft by a ticketed Passenger also known as unchecked baggage.Carry on baggage must weigh 20 pounds or less and be transported in the cabin with the passenger. Carry on baggage for guests traveling through airports with TSA screening will be considered “Gate check baggage”. |
Certificate | A physical piece of paper with a set value towards transportation or discount on Ravn |
Charter Flight | A flight where all seats are purchased by one entity to create a private flight. |
Checked Baggage | Baggage that a ticketed Passenger has requested be carried by the carrier and for which the carrier has issued a Baggage Claim Tag to the Passenger. |
Circle Trip | Travel in which the point of origin is also the ultimate destination but is not a round trip because it involves at least one more stopover at another destination. |
Codeshare Flight | A flight that is operated by one airline but jointly marketed by one or more different airlines. |
Conjunction Ticket | Two or more tickets concurrently issued to a Passenger and which together constitute a single contract of carriage. |
Consequential Damages | Damages which are the result of an act but are not direct or immediate. |
Contiguous United States or Continental United States | The District of Columbia and all states of the United States other than Alaska or Hawaii. |
Contract of Carriage | The terms and conditions contained in this document, as amended from time to time by the Carrier. |
Country of Commencement of Transportation | The country from which travel on the first international sector takes place. |
Country of Payment | The country where payment is made by the purchaser to the carrier or its agent. Payment by check, credit card or other banking instruments shall be deemed to have been made at the place where such instrument is accepted by the carrier or its agent. |
Date of Transaction | The date of issuance of the ticket or receipt of payment. |
Days | Full calendar days, including Sunday and legal holidays, provided that for the purposes of notification, the balance of the day upon which notice is dispatched shall not be counted; and that for purposes of determining the duration of a validity period, the balance of the day upon which the ticket is issued or the flight commenced shall not be counted. |
Department of Transportation (“DOT”) | The United States Department of Transportation |
Destination | The ultimate point of the Passenger’s journey as shown on the Ticket. |
Educational Establishment | A school, academy, college, or university offering full time educational, vocational, or technical courses for a school year and does not include a commercial office, industrial or military establishment, or a hospital at which a student is serving an apprenticeship unless such apprenticeship is part of the school curriculum of the Educational Establishment at which the student is enrolled. |
Fare Component | Each local currency fare (except Add-On-Fares) where more than one such fare is used in construction of the total fare for a journey. |
First Class | When equipped, the forward most section of the aircraft cabin that offers larger passenger seating and legroom, normally at a higher fare than Main Cabin (Coach) passengers. |
Flight Coupon | A portion of the Ticket that indicates travel points between which the coupon is good for carriage. |
Frequent Flyer / Frequent Traveler Award Ticket | An award given to a customer that has earned or obtained enough credits by flying the required amount of segments on Ravn or its partners to earn a roundtrip or one-way credit to be used for transportation on Ravn |
Gate Checked Luggage | Gate check luggage are bags classified as “carry on” luggage that must be tagged with a special tag by a Ravn counter / gate agent. These bags will be screened by TSA at the Security Checkpoint and carried by the passenger to the airplane. Once ready to board, the passenger will then leave the bag by the stairs of the aircraft, and if properly tagged, will receive the bag upon deplaning at the next stop. |
Gateway | The Passenger’s first point of arrival or last point of departure within a geographic locale. |
Group | A reservation consisting of (normally) 8 or more passengers, dependent on the type of aircraft and seating capacity. |
Half Round Trip Fare | Fifty (50) percent of a specified or constructed round trip normal or special fare. In the absence of a specified or constructed round trip normal fare, the one way normal fare is considered to be a half round trip normal fare. If a specified or constructed one way special fare may be doubled to establish a round trip special fare, the one way special fare is considered to be a half round trip special fare. |
Historical Comments | The placement of internal notes or time stamp that cannot be deleted by an agent or employee of the airline. |
IATA Rate of Exchange | The published rate of exchange issued by IATA from time to time. |
Immediate Family Member | (By Ravn definition) Spouse, children, step-children, foster children, legally adopted wards, son-/daughter-in-law, grandchildren, parents, step-parents, legal guardians, mother-/father-in-law, grandparents, brother/sister, stepbrother/sister, half-brother/sister, brother-/sister-in-law, aunts/uncles and nieces/nephews. |
Infant | A person who has not reached his/her second birthday as of the date of commencement of travel. |
Interline Transfer Point | Any point at which the Passenger transfers from the services of one carrier to the services of another carrier. |
Interline Transportation | Carriage on the services of more than one carrier where carriers agree to accept each other’s tickets and baggage. |
Interstate Transportation | Transportation between a point in any state of the United States and the District of Columbia and a point in any other state of the United States or the District of Columbia. |
Intraline Transportation or Online transportation | Carriage solely over the services of a single air carrier. |
Journey | All travel included on a ticket or group of conjunction tickets. |
Legal Guardian | One who legally has the responsibility of care and management of an infant/minor. |
Local Currency Fares | Fares and related charges expressed in the currency of the Country of Commencement of Transportation. |
Main Cabin | The cabin of a Ravn De Havilland Dash-8. |
Maximum Outside Linear Dimensions | The sum of the greatest outside length plus the greatest outside width, plus the greatest outside height. |
Medical Certificate | A letter or form from the Passenger’s treating physician or hospital, where applicable, which must be signed and dated within one week of the first affected flight departure by the treating physician or hospital in the country where the illness or treatment arose and which certifies the nature of the Passenger’s illness and treatment. |
Military Agencies | (By Ravn definition) Departments of the U.S.A. (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard); the respective academies of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, and the National Guard. The Reserve Officer Training Corps is not included. |
Military Passenger | Military personnel of the Military Agencies who are on active duty status or who have been honorably discharged or retired from active military service. |
Minor | A person who has reached his/her second birthday but not his/her 18th birthday as of the date of commencement of travel. |
Miscellaneous Charges Order (“MCO”) | A document issued by a carrier or its agents evidencing the provision of services to the person named in such document. |
No Show | A customer that has failed to notify Ravn Alaska of their inability to board the ticketed/booked flight within 40 minutes of departure. |
Normal Fare | The full fare established for regular or usual service, the application of which is not dependent upon any limited period of ticket validity or other special circumstances. Unless otherwise herein specified, Normal Fares shall be considered to include the following: all year one-way, round trip, circle trip and open jaw trips, Economy Class, one-class Standard Service, Standard Services, Tourist/Coach Class service, Thrift Class service fares, and on season and off-season fares. |
North America | The area comprised of Alaska, Canada, Continental U.S.A. and Mexico. |
Non-Revenue | An entity traveling on a fee-waived basis on Ravn, or utilizing a service offered by Ravn that is not paying the normal fare. |
Online Tariff Data Base | The remotely accessible, online version, maintained by the filer of (1) the Electronically filed tariff data submitted to the “official DOT tariff database,” and (2) the DOT approvals, disapprovals and other actions required by DOT. |
Online Transfer Point | Any point at which the Passenger transfers from one service of a carrier to another service of the same carrier (bearing a different flight number). |
Open-Jaw Trip | Travel which is essentially of a round trip nature but the outward point of departure and inward point of arrival and/or outward point of arrival and inward point of departure are not the same. |
Operating Carrier | The administrating (operating) carrier of a codeshare flight. |
Origin | The initial starting place of the journey. |
Other Charges | Charges such as taxes, fees, etc., not to be shown in the fare construction box of the ticket, excluding excess baggage charges. |
Oversold Flight | A flight where there are more Passengers holding valid confirmed tickets that check in for the flight within the prescribed check-in time than there are available seats. |
Paperless | A non-IATA standard basis for issuing transportation on a paid reservation in lieu of a ticket number; the traveler will receive a 6 character “confirmation number” along with no balance due when a Paperless transaction is present. |
Passenger | Any person, except members of the crew, carried or holding a confirmed reservation to be carried in an aircraft with the consent of the carrier. |
Passenger Coupon | That portion of the ticket constituting the Passenger’s written evidence of the Contract of Carriage. |
Premium Service | Premium Service is a special fare column on the Ravn booking site in which the passenger shall purchase a fare that includes no change fees, a fully refundable fare prior to departure, and in some markets chauffeur service within 15 miles of the airport. |
Prepaid Ticket Advice (“PTA”) | The notification between offices of a carrier or between carriers that a person has purchased and requested issuance of prepaid transportation for another person. Ravn does not accept PTA’s. |
Qualified Individual with a Disability | Any individual who has a physical or mental impairment that, on a permanent or temporary basis, substantially limits one or more major life activities, has a record of such impairment, or is regarded as having such impairment. The phrases used in this definition are further defined in United States 14 CFR Part 382.3. |
Rebooking | A change in date/time of reservation or other change not requiring ticket re-issuance. |
Related Charges | Those charges to be shown in the fare construction box of the ticket, such as excess baggage charges. |
Reroute | A change of routing, carriers, fares, class of service, flight or date from that originally provided on the ticket, but does not apply to open tickets. |
Resident (“a Resident”) | A person whose usual residence is in a certain country, provided that a more restricted definition may apply under local law. |
Revalidation | Any permissible change in flight reservations, as determined by the carrier, evidenced by the placement of a revalidation sticker or historical comments in a reservation. |
Round-Trip | Travel from one point to another and return by any air route for which the same normal all year through one way fare of the same class applies from the point of origin, provided that this definition shall not apply to travel for which the same all year through one way fare is established, between two points, in either direction around the world. |
Routing | The cities and/or class of service and/or type of aircraft via which carriage is provided by the carrier(s) between two points. |
School Year | A period of twelve (12) consecutive months less whatever interruptions for vacations are normally granted by the educational establishment at which the student is enrolled, provided that where the official scholastic year is less than twelve (12) months, “School Year” shall mean not less than a six-month period less whatever interruptions for vacations are normally granted at the educational establishment at which the student is enrolled. |
Sector or Segment | The portion of a journey covered by a single Flight Coupon. |
Service Animals | Any guide dog, signal dog, or other animal trained to provide necessary assistance to a Qualified Individual with a Disability or, a trained animal that assists law enforcement officers in the search of contraband and or other items, or which provides assistance with rescue efforts. |
Single Open Jaw | Travel that is essentially of a round trip nature, except that the outward point of arrival and inward point of departure are not the same or the outward point of departure and inward point of arrival are not the same. |
Special Fare | A fare other than a normal fare. |
Standby | Standby is defined as not receiving confirmation of a reservation or seat until 20 minutes prior to actual departure time of a flight; standby is not confirmed travel and is subject to space availability and limitations of the aircraft. |
Stopover | A deliberate interruption of travel by the Passenger, agreed to in advance by the carrier, at a point between the place of departure and the place of destination. For International flights a Stopover will also be deemed to occur at an intermediate point from which the Passenger is not scheduled to depart on the date of arrival, but if there is no connecting departure scheduled on the date of arrival, departure on the next day within 24 hours of arrival shall not constitute a Stopover. If a portion of the routing is traveled by surface transportation, one Stopover shall be deemed to have been taken for such portion. For Domestic flights, a Stopover will also occur when a Passenger arrives at a point and fails to depart from such point on:· The first flight on which space is available; or· The flight that will provide for the Passenger’s earliest arrival at intermediate or junction transfer point(s) or destination point, via the carrier and class of service as shown on the Passenger’s Ticket, provided however, that in no event will a Stopover occur when the Passenger departs from the intermediate/junction point on a flight shown in the carrier’s official general schedule as departing within four hours after arrival at such point. |
Surface Sector | Transportation by other than air between two intermediate points in a Fare Component. |
Through Fare | A fare applicable for travel between two consecutive fare construction points via an intermediate point(s). |
Ticket | The record of agreement, including electronic tickets, e.g., “Ravn Alaska Electronic Tickets” or “e-Tickets,” for the carrier(s) to provide transportation and related services under certain terms and conditions to the Passenger named on the Ticket and in accordance with applicable governing tariffs and regulations. |
Ticketed Point | Points shown in the “good for passage” section of the ticket plus any other point(s) used for fare construction and shown in the fare construction box of the ticket, provided that two flight numbers of two carriers such as for an interchange flight will not be permitted on one Flight Coupon. |
Transfer | A change from the flight on one carrier to the flight of another carrier, or a change from the flight of a carrier to another flight of the same carrier bearing the same flight number, or a change from the flight of a carrier to another flight that is a service bearing a different flight number of the same carrier, irrespective of whether or not a change of aircraft occurs. |
Transfer Point | Any point at which the Passenger Transfers. |
Transit Point | Any stop at an intermediate point on the route to be traveled (whether or not a change of aircraft is made) which does not fall within the definition of a Stopover. |
Trip in Vain | That transportation from a connection point is no longer available and the customer may opt, at no penalty, to return to their origination point, as long as the origination leg was on a Ravn operated aircraft & flight. |
Unaccompanied Minor | (By Ravn definition) Child(ren) 5 through 17 years of age when traveling alone or not accompanied on the same flight by a parent or guardian 18 years of age or older. |
United States of America (or the “United States” or the “U.S.A.”) | Unless otherwise specified, the area comprised of the 48 contiguous states, the District of Columbia, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, Midway, and Wake Islands. |
United States Department of Defense | The U.S.A. Department of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and the Marine Corps. |
Upgrade | To change from one cabin class to the next higher cabin class with or without paying the full applicable change in fare. |
Validate | A confirmation that the Ticket has been officially issued by the carrier. |
Voucher | An electronic confirmation number storing a saved or prepaid value with varying parameters including exclusions to routes, dates, and customers. |
Warsaw Convention | The Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules relating to International Carriage by Air, signed at Warsaw, October 12, 1929, or where applicable, that Convention, as amended, including without limitation, by the Protocol signed at The Hague on September 28, 1955. |
Western Hemisphere | The area comprised of the Continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Canada, Greenland, Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean Area. |
Date | Minimum Payment |
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30 days prior to travel | Final Payment (less deposits plus penalties) |
Type | City | Date Range | Limit |
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Seasonal | King Salmon | 06/01-09/01 | No more than 2 checked bags per person. Additional bags may be checked and accepted on a standby, space-available basis. |
Year-Round | Kenai Homer Dutch Harbor Sand Point Cold Bay |
01/01-12/31 | No more than 2 checked bags per person. Additional bags may be checked and accepted on a standby, space-available basis. |