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Pacific Island Flight Alternatives Act of 2025 or PIFAA This bill allows authorized foreign aircraft to pick up and drop off passengers and cargo in Guam or the Northern Mariana Islands on international flights to or from other places in the United States. Authorized aircraft are those registered to a foreign air carrier from Japan, the Philippines, or South Korea. Current law prohibits foreign air carriers from transporting passengers or cargo between places in the United States, with exceptions. The bill deems that passengers or cargo that are added to or removed from authorized foreign aircraft in Guam or the Northern Mariana Islands on a flight that is traveling between another place in the United States and an international location have not broken the international journey, thus allowing authorized foreign aircraft to transport passengers and cargo between Guam or the Northern Mariana Islands and other places in the United States on such flights.
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2025-02-24
Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
2025-02-24
Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
2025-02-24
Introduced in House
2025-02-24
Introduced in House
Full Bill Text
119 HR 1536 IH: Pacific Island Flight Alternatives Act of 2025 U.S. House of Representatives 2025-02-24 text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. I 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1536 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 24, 2025 Mr. Moylan (for himself and Ms. King-Hinds ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure A BILL To allow certain foreign air carriers to stop in Guam or the Northern Mariana Islands in the course of transportation of passengers or cargo in either direction between a place in the United States and a place outside the United States, and for other purposes. 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Pacific Island Flight Alternatives Act of 2025 or PIFAA . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) Limited air competition has made flights from Guam to the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands or to Hawaii exceedingly expensive. (2) The airports of Antonio B. Won Pat Guam International Airport (IATA: GUM), Francisco C. Ada Saipan International Airport (IATA: SPN), Francisco Manglona Borja Tinian International Airport (IATA: TIQ), and Benjamin Taisacan Manglona Rota International Airport (IATA: ROP) rely on foreign air carriers for travel. (3) The nations of Japan, Philippines, and the Republic of Korea have been critical allies for the United States within the Indo-Pacific region. (4) The nations of Japan, Philippines, and the Republic of Korea and the air carriers of such nations have been vital in supplementing deficiencies of United States air carriers when flying between the United States and other Pacific Islands. 3. Air commerce in Guam and Northern Mariana Islands Section 41703 of title 49, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: (f) Air commerce in Guam and Northern Mariana Islands (1) In general For purposes of subsection (c), passengers or cargo added to or removed from an authorized Pacific aircraft at a place in Guam or the Northern Mariana Islands in the course of transportation of such passengers or cargo in either direction between a place in the United States and a place outside the United States shall not be deemed to have broken the international journey of such authorized Pacific aircraft. (2) Authorized Pacific aircraft In this subsection, the term authorized Pacific aircraft means an aircraft registered to a foreign air carrier from Japan, Philippines, or the Republic of Korea that holds a permit under section 41302. .
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