Air ticket – paper or electronic document certifying the conclusion of the air carriage contract between the airline and the passenger on the air route and in accordance with the conditions specified in this document.
Air Waybill/consignment note – paper or electronic form of the document of the established form that certifies the conclusion of the air carriage contract between the shipper and the air carrier on the air route and in accordance with the conditions specified in this document.
Air carrier – an organization or enterprise engaged in the operating air carriages/carriages, or offering its services in this area.
Aviation security – the protection of civil aviation against unlawful interference acts.
Agent - a person who, in accordance with the agreement or another official document, is authorized to act on behalf of the air carrier.
Property Irregularity Report (PIR) – a document issued by the air carrier in the passenger’s presence immediately after discovering the harm caused to luggage.
Baggage Tag – a detachable coupon issued to the passenger and intended for identification/recognition for checked baggage.
Baggage statement – a document certifying receipt and delivery of checked baggage to persons who are responsible for its safety.
Reservation – a preliminary concluded contract on air carriage between the airline and the passenger/shipper, in which the payment for carriage, as a rule, is carried out within the stipulated time established by the air carrier, but not later than the time of departure.
Warsaw Convention – Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air signed in Warsaw, Poland, on October 12, 1929.
Domestic air carriage – air carriage when the point of departure, destination and all points of the air route are located in one state.
Refund – Payment to a passenger/consignor or a person authorized by him who paid for air carriage, part or the entire cost of carriage or service, which were previously paid but not used by him.
Air carriage – carriage of any kind, carried out on aircraft.
Cargo/shipment – any goods, thing or substance, except for the baggage and mail.
Cargo manifest – a document certifying receipt and delivery of the registered cargo by an air waybill to the persons who are responsible for their safety.
Consignor – a person, organization or company, which has entered into an agreement with the air carrier for air carriage.
Consignee – a person, organization or company, at the address to which goods/shipments are shipped.
Additional flight – a flight of the aircraft operated in addition to the flight schedule/timetable on the same air route, on which regular flights are operated.
Examination – application of technical or other means designed to identify and/or detect weapons, explosives or other dangerous devices, subjects or substances that can be used to carry out an unlawful interference act.
Notice: Regulations for examination and the requirements for aviation safety provision are regulated by the Kyrgyz Republic’s Aviation Security Regulations – APKR -17.
Checked baggage – passenger’s baggage that was accepted by the airline for carriage under his responsibility and for which the air carrier has issued a baggage receipt and a baggage tag.
Transit zone – an area at an international airport specially selected for stay of transit passengers and shipments, when applicable.
IATA – International Air Transport Association
ICAO – International Civil Aviation Organization
Interline Agreement – a commercial agreement between air carriers on recognizing of each other’s shipping and payment documents.
Light/bulk cargo – cargo, the specific volume of which exceeds 0.006 cubic meters in excess per kilo of its gross weight.
International Airport – the airport carrying out international air carriage, which is provided by the Customs, border, sanitary and quarantine control.
International veterinary certificate – a document issued by the relevant competent medical veterinary authorities and containing information about vaccinations, animal’s health and medical prosperous epidemiological situation in the region of residence.
International air carriage – a carriage, in which the place of departure and destination, regardless of whether there is a break in the carriage, located either in the territory of two states or in one state only but if one provides an intermediate stop in the territory of another state.
Unclaimed cargo / baggage – cargo/baggage, which was not claimed within 30 days from the date of its arrival in the destination.
Defective goods / luggage – cargo / baggage that were damaged, as a result of air carriage or, as a result of servicing carried out by an air carrier and/or an airport.
Malfunction of carriage – Sending baggage, cargo, lack of weight, loss, damage, lack of or improper checked carriage, improper labeled goods, broken packaging or the seals, as well as any non-fulfillment or improper fulfillment of the conditions of the air carriage contract, which caused or could cause damage for an air carrier, a passenger or a shipper.
Irregular / charter air carriages – individual air carriage operations carried out under the contract of charter, freight, lease or other similar agreement between an air carrier and a charterer or a customer.
Unaccompanied baggage – baggage transported separately from a passenger.
Civil Aviation Authority - Authority of the State, on which one has entrusted the functions to regulate and/or supervise the Civil Aviation sectoral activities.
Miscellaneous Charges Order (MCO) – a document issued by an airline to a passenger/shipper, in which the airline confirms the payment of the cost of the air ticket, baggage, cargo and other services of the air carrier.
STOP-OVER - intermediate point of the air route, in which one has scheduled stop of the passenger or cargo for more than 24 hours.
Voluntary refusal – refusal from air carriage, which occurred at the request of the passenger/shipper.
Passenger coupon – a part of the air ticket that is issued to a passenger by an air carrier.
Period of air carriage:
- In respect of luggage / cargo – the time period from the date of receipt of the luggage by an air carrier to the time of its issuance to a passenger or a consignee or to transfer it for storage;
- In respect of a passenger – the time period from the date of the passenger’s entry into the aircraft cabin and up to the moment when the passenger, after a flight, left the aircraft under supervision of the air carrier’s authorized persons.
Flight Coupon – a part of an air ticket or the payment document, which provides the passenger, if he has a passenger coupon, with the right to be carried between the destinations indicated in the coupon.
Claim – a claim/demand drawn up in writing by an interested person to compensate his damage caused during the air carriage.
Destination – the point, at which, under the contract on air carriage, this air carriage ends.
Departure point - the point, from which, under the contract on air carriage, this air carriage starts.
Transit point – an intermediate point, at which a passenger changes an aircraft and, if available, his baggage is re-loaded into another air vessel and, in the case of a cargo, this cargo is re-loaded from one flight to another one of the same airline for further carrying to the destination.
Transfer point - an intermediate point, at which, during 24 hours, a passenger changes an aircraft and, if available, his baggage is re-loaded into another air vessel and, in the case of a cargo, this cargo is re-loaded from one air carrier’s flight to another air carrier’s flight for further carrying to the destination.
Regular air carriages – air carriage operations carried out on a specified air route according to the published flight schedule including additional flights on such air route.
Flight - the aircraft’s flight, scheduled or unscheduled, operating from the air route’s initial to the final destination.
Hand luggage - things or objects that are necessary for a passenger during the flight that do not create any obstacles or inconveniences to the passenger himself, other passengers or an air crew during the flight, and they are under the passenger’s responsibility.
Charge – an amount charged in excess of the tariff.
Tariff – the rate of the payment for carrying a passenger, his baggage or cargo from a departure point to destination.
Transit passenger / cargo / baggage – a passenger / cargo / baggage, the air route of carriage of which includes a stop at one or more intermediate points of landing, and which are transported under the same air ticket and by the same air carrier.
Transfer passenger / cargo / baggage – a passenger / cargo / baggage, the air route of carriage of which includes a stop at one or more intermediate points, from where he flies by another flight operated by another air carrier.
Valuable cargo – cargo, which includes gold in coins, bullions or sand, platinum, silver and other precious metals, precious or semiprecious stones, including industrial diamonds, currency banknotes or coins, share-stocks, bonds, coupons, unpaid postage stamps and other securities, as well as jewelry items, which are carried under special conditions imposed by an air carrier.
Operator – a person, an organization or an enterprise engaged in operating aircraft or offering its services in this area.
E-ticket – an air ticket in a digital form, and placed in an appropriate digital electronic device.
Itinerary/Receipt – a paper version of the e-ticket, which is issued to a passenger by an airline.