TECHNICAL REPORTING DIRECTIVE #30A - MISHANDLED BAGGAGE AND WHEELCHAIRS AND SCOOTERS (AMENDED)
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), Office of Airline Information (OAI), is amending Technical Reporting Directive #30, which identifies the carriers that must submit mishandled baggage and wheelchairs and scooters data and provides instructions for carriers on how to report the data for air transportation performed in 2019. This amendment consists of (1) adding the Paperwork Reduction Act Burden Statement to the Technical Directive; (2) specifying that a reporting carrier that enters into a new domestic interline agreement in 2019 must notify OAI within 7 days of the event of the reporting method the reporting carrier will use with its new domestic interline partner; and (3) clarifying that a mishandled bag, wheelchair or scooter should not be reported as mishandled to DOT b carriers that choose to report purely domestic itineraries with multiple operating carriers under reporting method 1(B) only when conclusive evidence shows that the item was not in the custody of any of the carriers involved in the itinerary.