The “Conditions of Carriage”: refers to the "General Conditions of Carriage of Dalian AirlinesCo., Ltd.". Unless otherwise specified, the following terms in these Conditions have the following meanings:
13.1“We”: meansDalian AirlinesLimited.
13.2“You” or “Passenger”: means any person, except members of the crew, carried or to be carried in a civil aircraft pursuant to a ticket.
13.3Carrier”: means an public air transportation enterprise that carry passengers and baggage in order to earn profits.
13.4 "Ticketing carrier": refers to the carrier that uses the ticket stock and ticket numbers of the carrier to sign an air transportation contract with the passenger.
13.5“Operating carrier": means a carrier that performs related transportation under the authorization of the issuing carrier.
13.6"Authorized sales agent": refers to a passenger transportation sales agent company authorized by us to sell our air transportation services on our behalf and within the framework of our authorization.
13.7"Authorized ground service agent": refers to an enterprise authorized by us to provide ground service agency services for air transportation of passengers and baggage on our behalf and within the agreed scope of authorization.
13.8"Ticket" is a type of transportation certificate, including paper ticket and electronic ticket.
13.9"Conditions of use of ticket": It means the applicable conditions of use of fares applicable to the designated seat class codes or fare types.
13.10"Ticket Change" refers to situations where flight schedules, flight dates, class, carrier (endorsement), etc., are changed.
13.11 “Flight”:refers to the act of flying performed along a specific air route at a specific time on a specific date.
13.12“Agreed Stopping Place”: refers to the place, except the place of departure and the place of destination, set out in the ticket or shown in our timetables as scheduled stopping places on your route.
13.13"Class of service": refers to the classification of aircraft cabin configurations, including first class, business class, premium economy class, and economy class.
13.14"Classes": refers to the class code shownon your ticket.
13.15"Fare": refers to the price of air transportation services provided by the carrier using civil aircraft to transport passengers from the airport of departure to the airport of destination, excluding the taxes and fees collected in accordance with national regulations.
13.16"Normal fare": means the highest fare of first class, business class, premium economy class and economy class during the applicable period.
13.17"Special fare" means other fares that are not normal fares.
13.18"Reservation/booking": means the reservation of your reserved seat, classes, or the weight and volume of baggage.
13.19 "Valid ID": means the valid certificate required by the relevant government authorities to prove your identity that you should present when purchasing tickets and boarding flights.
13.20"Valid travel documents": include valid ID documents and all other documents for exit, entry, transit and health required by laws, regulations, decrees or other regulations of other relevant countries or regions.
13.21"At least X years old": refers to the calculation based on the year, month and day of the Gregorian calendar, starting from the day of the first birthday.
13.22"Fail to Check in": refers to your failure to complete the flight check-in procedures within the prescribed time, or your failure to travel because your travel documents are not in compliance with relevant rules and regulations.
13.23"Fail to Board": refers to the situation where you fail to get on board your flight after check-in is completed at the departure airport or the transit airport shown on your ticket.
13.24"Take a wrong flight": means the situation where you have taken a flight that is not shown on the ticket.
13.25 “Baggage”:means the necessary, and an appropriate quantity of, personal articles that you wear and use for convenience and comfort during the travel.
13.26“Checked baggage” means the baggage which you hand over to the carrier for transportation and for which we have issued the baggage identification tag.
13.27“Unchecked Baggage” means any of your baggage, other than checked baggage, which you taken into the cabin and you are to take care of by yourself.
13.28“Baggage identification tag” means a document issued solely for identification of checked baggage.
13.29“Overbooking” means the situation where the carrier sells more seats than the number of seats available on a flight in order to reduce the number of seats that would otherwise go empty.
13.30"Volunteer" means the passenger who, in response to the carrier's call, is willing to accept conditions of compensation provided by the carrier and give up his/her reserved seat on his/her flight.
13.31"Transportation Credit Voucher (TCV)" refers to a special transportation document issued by us to provide various types of compensation to passengers, which can be used, in favor of the passenger named on it or another person designated by the passenger, to exchange for a ticket on a flight operated by us, or to pay excess baggage fees, fare differences, change handling fees, etc. But TCV cannot be used to pay various taxes. TCV is valid within one year from the date of its issuance.
13.32"Electronic compensation voucher": refers to a form of compensation for services or damages that we offer passengers as an alternative to compensation in cash.
13.33"Consumable Mileage": means the mileage which you earn, based on our rules, when flying on the member carriers of Dalian Airlinesor Air China system Air China’s partner carriers, or making purchases at non-airline partners (excluding special retailers), or participating in "PhoenixMiles" promotions, etc., and which can be used for awards.
13.34"Domestic air transportation” means the transportation where, according to the contract of transportation signed by you and us, the place of departure, the destination and the agreed stopping place are all situated in the People’s Republic of China.
13.35"International air transportation” means the transportation where, according to the contract of transportation signed by you and us, the place of departure. or the destination or the agreed stopping place, whether or not there is a break in the transportation or a connection, is not situated in the People’s Republic of China.
13.36"The laws of the People's Republic of China" or "the laws of China": refer to the laws of the People's Republic of China, except for the laws of the Hong Kong SAR, Macau SAR of the People's Republic of China and Taiwan Region of the People's Republic of China for the purpose of these Conditions of Carriage.
13.37“Conventions” means whichever of the following instruments is applicable:
The Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to International Carriage by Air, signed at Warsaw, 12 October 1929 (Warsaw Convention, in short; for details, see http://www.caac.gov.cn/XXGK/XXGK/GJGY/201510/t20151029_8979.html);
The Warsaw Convention as amended at The Hague on 28 September 1955 (Hague Protocol, in short; for details, see http://www.caac.gov.cn/XXGK/XXGK/GJGY/201510/t20151029_8978.html);
The Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air, done at Montreal on 28 May 1999 (Montreal Convention, in short; for details, see http://www.caac.gov.cn/XXGK/XXGK/GJGY/201510/t20151029_8976.html).
13.38"Flight departure delay" refers to the situation where the adjusted scheduled flight departure time or the actual flight departure time is over 15 minutes later than the scheduled flight departure time shown on the ticket.
13.39"Flight arrival delay" refers to the situation where the time the wheel choke is placed after the flight arrives is over 15 minutes later than the scheduled flight arrival time.
13.40 "Advance flight departure" refers to the situation where the adjusted scheduled flight departure time is earlier than the scheduled flight departure time shown on the ticket.