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Flight Authorization Program

Commercial Passenger Flights - General

Secure [Scheduled] Commercial Passenger Flights

Commercial passenger carriers that:

A. Subscribe to a TC-approved program that requires all crew members to carry Restricted Area Identification Cards (RAIC);

B. Conform to CARs Part 705 security criteria (locking cockpit doors and associated procedures); and

C. Only operate into/out of the OCA from fully-screened and access-controlled (Schedule 1, 2 or Other) airport terminals;

are preauthorized to enter the OCA and exempted from the Flight Authorization request process.

Non-Secure [Scheduled] Commercial Passenger Flights (see R&FA Terminology)

1.  All Commercial Passenger Carrier flight and cabin crew must be registered with R&FA in advance, and their IRC are to be entered on FA request forms and manifests.

2.  A registered OCtc of the carrier, or an OCtc of the agency responsible to issue documents of entitlement (boarding passes) to commercial passengers, must prepare, reconcile (see R&FA Terminology), and electronically transmit a verified passenger manifest to R&FA before allowing passengers to board the aircraft.

3.  Manifests must be completed in accordance with the procedures and permissions iterated below.

Non-Scheduled Commercial Passenger Flights (see R&FA Terminology)

  These flights will be processed in accordance with non-scheduled charter flight procedures. Refer to the Corporate/Charter section for details.

Manifests

1.  All non-secure flights with non-registered passengers on board must submit a complete and verified flight manifest form to R&FA (see the Non-Secure Commercial and Charter/Corporate sections, below).

 2.  Information identified as “required” on manifest forms must be included. Incomplete forms cannot be processed, and the flight will not receive a FA code as a result.

A. IRC must be entered for flight and cabin crew.

B. Passengers possessing an IRC that can be verified by the OCtc may enter that code instead of submitting personal information.

3.  Personal information entered on the manifest form must be reconciled with a government-issued picture-ID by a registered OCtc, and the OCtc must obtain permission to release that information prior to submitting the manifest to R&FA.

A. After requesting permission to release the information, the reconciling OCtc must indicate receipt of the individual’s consent to do so by annotating the “verified/released” block on the form.

4.  Individuals who refuse to release all or part of the information required on the R&FA manifest are not permitted to enter the OCA on board a non-secure aircraft, and should be referred to a carrier that conforms to regulations contained in CARs, Part 705 instead.

A. The individual’s personal information must be deleted from the manifest prior to transmission to R&FA.

5.  Manifests will be retained by R&FA until the flight has landed in the OCA, or is no longer able to return to restricted airspace.

 

Commercial Passenger Flight Authorization request forms can be downloaded here.

 

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