Interstate air transportation

Definition

• Means the carriage by aircraft of persons or property as a common carrier for compensation or hire, or the carriage of mail by aircraft in commerce:
  (1) Between a place in a State or the District of Columbia and another place in another State or the District of Columbia;
  (2) Between places in the same State through the airspace over any place outside that State; or
  (3) Between places in the same possession of the United States;
  Whether that commerce moves wholly by aircraft of partly by aircraft and partly by other forms of transportation.

References

• 14 C.F.R. Part 1, Federal Aviation Administration, 2026