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1The format and instructions for reporting this 

information are in Technical Reporting Directive 

#27—On-Time Performance, effective January 1, 

2018, available at: https://cms7.bts.dot.gov/sites/ 

bts.dot.gov/files/docs/explore-topics-andgeography/topics/airlines-and-airports/207741/ 

technical-directive-no-27-time-2018.pdf. 

2The format and instructions for reporting 

mishandled baggage and wheelchair and scooter 

information to DOT are in Technical Reporting 

Directive #30A—Mishandled Baggage and 

Wheelchairs and Scooters (Amended), effective 

January 1, 2019, available at: https://

www.bts.dot.gov/sites/bts.dot.gov/files/docs/ 

explore-topics-and-geography/topics/airlines-andairports/224606/technicaldirective30

abaggage2019amended.pdf. 

allowing NHTSA to search and copy 

certain portions of your submissions. 

Comments may be submitted to the 

docket electronically by logging onto the 

Docket Management System website at 

http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

online instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• You may also submit two copies of 

your comments, including the 

attachments, to Docket Management at 

the address given above under 

ADDRESSES. 

Please note that pursuant to the Data 

Quality Act, in order for substantive 

data to be relied upon and used by the 

agency, it must meet the information 

quality standards set forth in the OMB 

and DOT Data Quality Act guidelines. 

Accordingly, we encourage you to 

consult the guidelines in preparing your 

comments. OMB’s guidelines may be 

accessed at http://www.whitehouse.gov/ 

omb/fedreg/reproducible.html. DOT’s 

guidelines may be accessed at http://

www.bts.gov/programs/statistical_

policy_and_research/data_quality_

guidelines. 

Will the Agency consider late 

comments? 

We will consider all comments that 

Docket Management receives before the 

close of business on the comment 

closing date indicated above under 

DATES. To the extent possible, we will 

also consider comments that Docket 

Management receives after that date. 

How can I read the comments submitted 

by other people? 

You may see the comments on the 

internet. To read the comments on the 

internet, go to http://

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for accessing the dockets. 

Please note that, even after the 

comment closing date, we will continue 

to file relevant information in the 

Docket as it becomes available. Further, 

some people may submit late comments. 

Accordingly, we recommend that you 

periodically check the Docket for new 

material. 

(Authority: 49 U.S.C. 30113 and 49 U.S.C. 

30166; delegations of authority at 49 CFR 

1.95 and 501.5.) 

Issued in Washington, DC, under authority 

delegated in 49 CFR 1.95 and 501.5. 

Sophie Shulman, 

Deputy Administrator. 

[FR Doc. 2024–25990 Filed 11–7–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–59–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Transportation Statistics Bureau 

[Docket ID Number: DOT–OST–2014–0031] 

Notice of Submission of Proposed 

Information Collection to OMB; Agency 

Request for Renewal of a Previously 

Approved Collection: Airline Service 

Quality Performance—Part 234 

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Research and Technology 

(OST–R), Bureau of Transportation 

Statistics (BTS), Department of 

Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this 

notice announces DOT’s intention to 

renew Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) Control Number 2138– 

0041 covering Airline Service Quality 

Performance On-time Performance and 

Mishandled Baggage reports that the 

largest U.S. air carriers file with DOT. 

DATES: Comments on this notice must be 

received by January 7, 2025. Interested 

persons are invited to submit comments 

regarding this proposal. 

ADDRESSES: To ensure that you don’t 

duplicate your docket submissions, 

please submit them by only one of the 

following means: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

https://www.regulations.gov and follow 

the online instructions for submitting 

comments. (You may access comments 

received for this notice at http://

www.regulations.gov by searching 

docket DOT–OST–2014–0031.) 

• Mail: Docket Management Facility, 

U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 

New Jersey Ave. SE, West Building 

Ground Floor Room W12–140, 

Washington, DC 20590–0001. 

• Hand Delivery: West Building 

Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 1200 

New Jersey Ave. SE, between 9 a.m. and 

5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except 

Federal holidays. The telephone number 

is 202–366–9329. 

Privacy Act: Anyone is able to search 

the electronic form of all comments 

received into any of DOT’s dockets by 

the name of the individual submitting 

the comment (or signing the comment, 

if submitted on behalf of an association, 

business, labor union, etc.). You may 

review DOT’s complete Privacy Act 

Statement in the Federal Register 

published on April 11, 2000 (65 FR 

19477–78). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Cecelia Robinson, Office of Airline 

Information, RTS–42, OST–R, BTS, 

1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, 

Washington, DC 20590–0001, telephone 

number (202) 893–0515 (voice), fax 

number (202) 366–3383 or email 

cecelia.robinson@dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: DOT 

collects information regarding flight 

performance and mishandled baggage, 

wheelchairs, and scooters from the 

largest U.S. air carriers under 14 CFR 

part 234. The air carriers required to 

provide this information to DOT consist 

of the U.S. air carriers that accounted for 

at least half of one percent of domestic 

scheduled-passenger revenues 

(Reporting Carriers) as most recently 

determined by the DOT’s Office of 

Airline Information. An air carrier that 

is not a Reporting Carrier may 

voluntarily submit the flight 

performance and mishandled baggage, 

wheelchairs, and scooters information 

to the Department pursuant to 14 CFR 

234.7. 

Specifically, Reporting Carriers must 

submit Part 234 On-time Performance 

reports to DOT with information on 

domestic flight operations and 

performance as described in 14 CFR 

234.4.1 In addition, under 14 CFR 234.6, 

Reporting Carriers must submit Part 234 

Mishandled Baggage reports to DOT that 

include the following information for 

covered domestic flights: (1) the number 

of bags mishandled in its custody, (2) 

the number of bags enplaned into the 

aircraft cargo compartment, (3) the 

number of mishandled wheelchairs and 

scooters mishandled in its custody, and 

(4) the number of wheelchairs and 

scooters enplaned into the aircraft cargo 

compartment.2 Each Reporting Carrier is 

required to report the flight performance 

and mishandled baggage, wheelchair, 

and scooter information to DOT on a 

monthly basis for the covered flights it 

operates and for any covered flights 

held out under the Reporting Carrier’s 

code (as the only U.S. carrier code) and 

operated by a codeshare partner of the 

Reporting Carrier. 

DOT uses the information reported by 

airlines to provide airline performance 

information and statistics on the BTS 


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website and in the Air Travel Consumer 

Report (ATCR), a monthly publication 

of DOT’s Office of Aviation Consumer 

Protection (OACP). Air transportation 

consumers and other stakeholders use 

the information DOT publishes to 

understand and compare airlines’ 

service quality performance, including 

airlines’ rates of on-time performance 

and cancellation and rates of baggage 

and wheelchair and scooter 

mishandling. 

DOT’s Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA) uses data 

reported by airlines in Part 234 On-time 

Performance reports to analyze air 

traffic delays. Wheels-up and wheelsdown times are used by the FAA in 

conjunction with departure and arrival 

times to show the extent of ground 

delays. Actual elapsed flight time 

(wheels-down minus wheels-up time) is 

compared by the FAA to scheduled 

elapsed flight time to identify airborne 

delays. The reporting of the aircraft tail 

number allows the FAA to track an 

aircraft through the air network, which 

enables the FAA to study the ripple 

effects of delays at hub airports. The 

data can be analyzed by the FAA for 

airport design changes, new equipment 

purchases, and the planning of new 

runways or airports based on current 

and projected airport delays and traffic 

levels. The identification of the reason 

for delays allows the FAA, airport 

operators, and air carriers to pinpoint 

delays under their control. 

DOT is publishing this notice to 

announce its intent to request extension 

of the previously approved information 

collections described above under OMB 

Control Number 2138–0041. Without 

further action, OMB authorization of the 

information collections would expire 

March 25, 2025. 

The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA) and its implementing regulations, 

5 CFR part 1320, require Federal 

agencies to issue two notices seeking 

public comment on information 

collection activities before OMB may 

approve paperwork packages. A Federal 

agency generally cannot conduct or 

sponsor a collection of information, and 

the public is generally not required to 

respond to an information collection, 

unless it is approved by the OMB under 

the PRA and displays a currently valid 

OMB Control Number. In addition, 

notwithstanding any other provisions of 

law, no person shall generally be subject 

to monetary penalty for failing to 

comply with a collection of information 

if the collection of information does not 

display a valid OMB Control Number. 

See 5 CFR 1320.5(a) and 1320.6. 

For each of these information 

collections, the title, a description of the 

respondents, and an estimate of the 

annual recordkeeping and periodic 

reporting burden are set forth below. 

1. Airline Service Quality Performance 

Reports—Part 234 On-Time 

Performance 

Respondents: Certificated air carriers 

that account for at least half of one 

percent of the domestic scheduledservice passenger revenues are required 

to report flight performance data for 

flights that they operate as described in 

14 CFR 234.4; Certificated air carriers 

that account for at least half of one 

percent of domestic scheduled-service 

passenger revenues that market codeshare flights carrying the carrier’s code 

as the only U.S. carrier code are 

required to report flight performance 

data for these code-share flights as 

described in 14 CFR 234.4; Air carriers 

may voluntarily report flight 

performance data pursuant to 14 CFR 

234.7. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 15 

air carriers (4 of which market 

codeshare flights). 

Frequency: Monthly. 

Estimated Average Burden per 

Response: 10 hours for each respondent 

to report for the flights operated by the 

respondent plus an additional 16 hours 

if the respondent reports for flights 

operated by code-share partners. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 

2,568 hours (15 air carriers reporting the 

flight performance information for the 

flights they operate × 10 hours per 

response × 12 months = 1,800 hours) + 

(4 air carriers reporting the flight 

performance information for flights 

operated by their codeshare partners × 

16 hours per response × 12 months = 

768 hours). This estimate is based on 

the following information: 15 carriers 

reported the flight performance data for 

the flights they operated to DOT in 

calendar year 2019, 2020, and 2021, 

2022, 2023, 2024. Currently, 4 carriers 

report flight performance data to DOT 

for their codeshare operations. 

DOT estimates that respondents will 

encounter on average a 10-hour burden 

per month to report flight performance 

data to DOT for the flights they operate. 

DOT estimates the respondents that 

market codeshare flights will encounter 

on average an additional burden of 16 

hours per month to report flight 

performance data to DOT for their 

codeshare operations. The burden 

estimates include staff time to manage 

and process the data and to submit the 

report through DOT’s electronic 

submission system. 

2. Airline Service Quality Performance 

Reports—Part 234 Mishandled Baggage 

Respondents: Certificated air carriers 

that account for at least half of one 

percent of the domestic scheduledservice passenger revenues are required 

to report mishandled baggage and 

wheelchairs and scooters data for flights 

that they operate as described in 14 CFR 

234.6; Certificated air carriers that 

account for at least half of one percent 

of domestic scheduled-service passenger 

revenues that market code-share flights 

carrying the carrier’s code as the only 

U.S. carrier code are required to report 

mishandled baggage and wheelchairs 

and scooters data for these code-share 

flights as described in 14 CFR 234.6; Air 

carriers may voluntarily report 

mishandled baggage and wheelchairs 

and scooters data pursuant to 14 CFR 

234.7. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 15 

air carriers (4 that market codeshare 

flights). 

Frequency: Monthly. 

Estimated Average Burden per 

Response: 10 hours for each respondent 

to report for the flights operated by the 

respondent plus an additional 16 hours 

if the respondent reports for flights 

operated by code-share partners. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 

2,568 hours (15 air carriers reporting the 

mishandled baggage and mishandled 

wheelchairs and scooters information 

for flights they operate × 10 hours per 

response × 12 months = 1,800 hours) + 

(4 air carriers reporting the mishandled 

baggage and mishandled wheelchairs 

and scooters information for flights 

operated by their codeshare partners × 

16 hours per response × 12 months = 

768 hours) + (.00138 hours for manual 

data entry related to wheelchair or 

scooters × 12,000 manual entries = 17 

hours). This estimate is based on the 

following information: 17 carriers 

reported mishandled baggage and 

wheelchair and scooter information to 

DOT in calendar year 2019, 2020, and 

2021, 2022, 2023, 2024. Currently, 4 

carriers report mishandled baggage and 

wheelchair and scooter information to 

DOT for their codeshare operations. 

DOT estimates that respondents will 

encounter on average 10-hours burden 

per month to report the mishandled 

baggage and wheelchair and scooter 

data to DOT for the flights they operate. 

DOT estimates that respondents that 

market codeshare flights will encounter 

on average an additional burden of 16 

hours per month to report the 

mishandled baggage and wheelchair and 

scooter data to DOT for their codeshare 

operations. The burden estimates 

include staff time to manage and 


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3The Final Rule to Amend Rules Requiring 

Reporting of Mishandled Baggage, Regulatory 

Impact Analysis, October 18, 2016, estimated a data 

entry burden of 5 seconds per wheelchair or scooter 

recorded manually. See Docket No. RITA–2011– 

0001. 

process the data and to submit the 

report through DOT’s electronic 

submission system. 

In addition, the estimated total annual 

burden is based on the assumption that 

most respondents employ automated 

processes to record that an item 

enplaned is a wheelchair or scooter for 

the purposes of reporting data on 

wheelchairs and scooters to DOT. For a 

carrier that manually records this 

information, such as by having their 

agent type information describing a 

wheelchair or scooter into the airline’s 

system, DOT estimates that the airline 

would spend approximately 5 seconds 

(.00138 hours) per item to manually 

enter the data.3 DOT estimates that 

12,000 Wheelchairs and scooters total 

are recorded manually per year. 

Administrative Issues 

The Confidential Information 

Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act 

of 2002 (44 U.S.C. 3501) requires a 

statistical agency to clearly identify 

information it collects for non-statistical 

purposes. BTS hereby notifies the 

respondents and the public that BTS 

uses the information it collects under 

this OMB approval for non-statistical 

purposes including, but not limited to, 

publication of both respondent’s 

identity and its data, submission of the 

information to agencies outside BTS for 

review, analysis and possible use in 

regulatory and other administrative 

matters. 

Comments Invited 

We invite comments on: (a) Whether 

the collection of information is 

necessary for the proper performance of 

the functions of DOT, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of 

DOT’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed information collection; (c) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on respondents. 

All responses to this notice will be 

summarized and included in the request 

for OMB approval. All comments will 

also become a matter of public record on 

the docket. 

Issued this 4th day of November 2024 at 

Washington, DC. 

Rolf Schmitt, 

Acting Director, Office of Airline Information, 

Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Office of 

the Assistant Secretary for Research and 

Technology. 

[FR Doc. 2024–25927 Filed 11–7–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–9X–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Bureau of Transportation Statistics 

[Docket ID Number DOT–OST–2014–0031] 

Agency Information Collection; 

Activity Under OMB Review; Report of 

Financial and Operating Statistics for 

Small Aircraft Operators 

AGENCY: Bureau of Transportation 

Statistics (BTS), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

Bureau of Transportation Statistics 

invites the general public, industry and 

other governmental parties to comment 

on the continuing need for and 

usefulness of BTS collecting financial, 

traffic and operating statistics from 

small certificated and commuter air 

carriers. Small certificated air carriers 

(operate aircraft with 60 seats or less or 

with 18,000 pounds of payload capacity 

or less) currently must file the two 

quarterly schedules: F–1 ‘‘Report of 

Financial Data’’, F–2 ‘‘Report of Aircraft 

Operating Expenses and Related 

Statistics’’, and Commuter air carriers 

must file the Schedule F–1 ‘‘Report of 

Financial Data’’. Commenters should 

address whether BTS accurately 

estimated the reporting burden and if 

there are other ways to enhance the 

quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information collected. 

DATES: Written comments should be 

submitted by January 7, 2025. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Cecelia Robinson, Office of Airline 

Information, RTS–42, Room E34–110, 

OST–R, BTS, 1200 New Jersey Avenue 

SE, Washington, DC 20590–0001, 

telephone number (202) 893–0515, fax 

number (202) 366–3383 or email 

cecelia.robinson@dot.gov. 

Jennifer Rodes, Office of Airline 

Information, RTS–42, Room E32–103, 

OST–R, BTS, 1200 New Jersey Avenue 

SE, Washington, DC 20590–0001, 

telephone number (202) 366–8513, fax 

number (202) 366–3383 or email 

Jennifer.rodes@dot.gov. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

identified by DOT Docket ID Number 

DOT–OST–2014–0031 by any of the 

following methods: 

Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

online instructions for submitting 

comments. 

Mail: Docket Services: U.S. 

Department of Transportation, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building 

Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 

Washington, DC 20590–0001. 

Hand Delivery or Courier: West 

Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 

1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, between 9 

a.m. and 5 p.m. ET, Monday through 

Friday, except Federal holidays. 

Fax: 202–366–3383. 

Instructions: Identify docket number, 

DOT–OST–2014–0031, at the beginning 

of your comments, and send two copies. 

To receive confirmation that DOT 

received your comments, include a selfaddressed stamped postcard. Internet 

users may access all comments received 

by DOT at http://www.regulations.gov. 

All comments are posted electronically 

without charge or edits, including any 

personal information provided. 

Comments: Comments should identify 

the associated OMB approval #2138– 

0009 and Docket ID Number DOT–OST– 

2014–0031. Persons wishing the 

Department to acknowledge receipt of 

their comments must submit with those 

comments a self-addressed stamped 

postcard on which the following 

statement is made: Comments on OMB 

#2138–0009, Docket—DOT–OST–2014– 

0031. The postcard will be date/time 

stamped and returned. 

Privacy Act: Anyone is able to search 

the electronic form of all comments 

received into any of our dockets by the 

name of the individual submitting the 

comment (or signing the comment, if 

submitted on behalf of an association, 

business, labor union, etc.). You may 

review DOT’s complete Privacy Act 

Statement in the Federal Register 

published on April 11, 2000 (65 FR 

19477–78). 

Docket: For access to the docket to 

read background documents or 

comments received, go to http://

www.regulations.gov or the street 

address listed above. Follow the online 

instructions for accessing the dockets. 

Electronic Access: You may access 

comments received for this notice at 

http://www.regulations.gov, by 

searching docket DOT–OST–2014–0031. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

OMB Approval No.: 2138–0009. 

Title: Report of Financial and 

Operating Statistics for Small Aircraft 

Operators. 

Form No.: BTS Form 298–C. 


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