14 CFR 252.4
§ 252.4 Smoking ban: air carriers.
United States · 14 CFR — Aeronautics and Space · Status: effective
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- 14 CFR 252.4, § 252.4 Smoking ban: air carriers, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/58705
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Air carriers shall prohibit smoking on the following flights:
(a) Scheduled passenger flights.
(b) Nonscheduled passenger flights, except for the following flights where a flight attendant is not a required crewmember on the aircraft as determined by the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration:
(1) Single entity charters.
(2) On-demand services of air taxi operators.
(c) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to require air carriers to permit smoking aboard aircraft.
Legislative history
This is a federal regulation, adopted through agency rulemaking under the Administrative Procedure Act — not enacted by a recorded vote of Congress.