
RULE NO. 72: SCHEDULES, ROUTINGS, AND CANCELLATIONS:
- Times shown in timetables or elsewhere are approximate and not guaranteed
and form no part of the contract of carriage. No time is fixed for the commencement
or completion of carriage or delivery of cargo. Unless otherwise provided
in carrier’s regulations, carrier assumes no obligation to carry the cargo
by any specified aircraft or over any particular route or routes, or to make
connections at any point according to any particular schedule, and carrier
is hereby authorized to select or deviate from the route(s)of consignment,
notwithstanding that the same may be stated on the face of the air waybill.
Carrier is not responsible for errors of omissions whether in timetables or
other representations of schedules. No employee, agent or representative
of carrier is authorized to bind carrier by any statements or representations
of the dates or time of departure or arrival, or of the operation of any flight.
- Carrier may substitute alternate carrier or aircraft.
- Carrier may cancel, terminate, divert, postpone, or delay any flight, or
the further right of carriage, or proceed with any flight without all or any
part of the cargo, if it considers that it would be advisable to do so:
- because of any fact beyond its control (including, but without limitation
to, meteorological conditions, acts of God, force majeure, strikes, riots,
civil commotions, embargoes, wars, hostilities, disturbances, or unsettled
international conditions) or because of any delay, demand, condition, circumstance,
or requirement due to such facts; or
- because of government regulation, order, demand or requirement, or
- because of shortage of labor, fuel, or facilities, or labor difficulties
of carrier.
- Carrier will cancel the carriage of a consignment upon the refusal of the
shipper, after demand by such carrier to pay the charges or the portion thereof
so demanded, without being subject to any liability therefore.
- In the event any flight is so canceled, postponed or advanced or is terminated
at a place other than the place of destination or in the event the carriage
of any consignment is so canceled, postponed, advanced or terminated, carrier
shall not be under any liability with respect thereto. In the event the carriage
of the consignment or any part thereof is so terminated, delivery thereof
by carrier to any transfer agent for transfer or delivery or the placing of
such consignment in storage shall be deemed complete delivery under the air
waybill, and carrier shall be without any further liability with respect thereto,
except to give notice of the disposition of the consignment to the shipper
or to the consignee, at the address stated in the air waybill. Carrier may,
but shall not be obligated to forward the consignment for carriage by any
other route or forward the consignment as agent for the shipper or the consignee,
for onward carriage by any transportation service on behalf of the shipper
or the consignee. The cost of so doing attaches to the cargo.
- Subject to applicable government laws, regulations and orders, carrier will
determine, on a reasonable and not unjustly discriminatory basis, the priority
of carriage as between consignments and as between consignments and other
cargo, mail and passengers, and will decide which articles shall be carried
and which articles shall not be carried or shall be removed at any time or
place whatsoever and to proceed with any flight without all or part of the
goods in one consignment.
