49 U.S.C. § 41702
Section 41702 · Interstate air transportation
Amended 1 time on record
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case 48 Cal. App. 4th 1637 - Romano v. American Trans Air (1996)
Most recently applied in Competitive Enterprise Institute v. United States Department of Transportation (July 2017)
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Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
An air carrier shall provide safe and adequate interstate air transportation.
Editorial notes U.S. Code · Office of the Law Revision Counsel
This section is substituted for 49 App.:1374(a)(1) because 49 App.:1551(a)(4)(C) provides that 49 App.:1374 no longer applies to interstate or overseas air transportation except insofar as 49 App.:1374 requires air carriers to provide safe and adequate service.