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PART 298 – Form 298C F-2 Aircraft Operating Expenses and Related Statistics – Non-Alaskan Carriers

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OMB NO: 2138-0009

EXPIRATION DATE: 2/28/2025

Paperwork Reduction Act Burden Statement

A federal agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, nor shall a person be subject to a penalty for failure to comply with a collection of information subject to the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act unless that collection of information displays a current valid OMB Control Number. The OMB Control Number for this information collection is 2138-0009. Public reporting for Form 298-C, Schedule F-2, Report of Aircraft Operating Expenses and Related Statistics Alaskan/Non-Alaskan is estimated to be approximately 12 hours per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, completing and reviewing the collection of information. All responses to this collection of information are mandatory, as authorized by 14 CFR, Part 298. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for reducing this burden to: Information Collection Clearance Officer, Cecelia Robinson, OAI/BTS/OST-R, RTS-42, Room E34-410, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE, Washington, D.C. 20590 or e-mail – cecelia.robinson@dot.gov.

REQUIREMENTS

RECORD DESCRIPTION: F-2 Aircraft Operating Expenses and Related Statistics – Non-Alaskan Carriers

F-2 – Direct Expenses, by Aircraft (one or more records reported depending on the number of aircraft)

Field Description Data Type Length Comments Sample Data
Carrier code Character 3 Two Character IATA code or
Three Character DOT assigned code		 ABC
Carrier entity code Numeric 5 DOT assigned code 01111
Year Numeric 4 Year (CCYY) 2010
Month Numeric 2 Month (MM) 03
Type of Expenses Numeric 1 D = Direct Expenses, by Aircraft D
Aircraft Type Numeric 3 DOT Aircraft Code 035
Aircraft configuration Numeric 1 DOT Cabin Configuration Codes: 1,2,3,4 1
Flying Ops
(line 1 on the F2 Non-AK form)		 Numeric --- Pilot and co-pilot expense including salaries/fringes/ allocated housing /utilities 123.01
Aircraft fuel & oil
(line 2 on the F2 Non-AK form)		 Numeric --- Aircraft fuel and oil issued 123.02
Other
(line 3 on the F2 Non-AK form)		 Numeric --- - Hull insurance expense to cover the structure of the aircraft.
- Expenses incurred for keeping operational personnel in readiness for assignment to an in-flight status.
- All other in-flight operations expenses otherwise not provided for on this schedule.		 123.03
Maintenance of flight equipment (line 5 on the F2 Non-AK form) Numeric --- Maintenance expenses including salaries /fringes /allocated housing /hangar /utilities 123.05
Depreciation/rental of flight equipment (line 6 on the F2 Non-AK form) Numeric --- Depreciation of cost of rental equipment to include property taxes 123.06

Sample Direct Expenses, by Aircraft, Records (reporting two aircraft):

         ABC,01111,2010,03,D,035,1,123.01,123.02,123.03,123.05,123.06
         ABC,01111,2010,03,D,036,1,123.01,123.02,123.03,123.05,123.06


F-2 – TOTAL Direct Expenses, by Aircraft (one record reported)

For purposes of validation and cross-checking, carriers will report a single record, with totals for all ‘direct expenses’, for all aircraft types reported, using Aircraft Type/Configuration = 999/9

Field Description Data Type Length Comments Sample Data
Carrier code Character 3 Three Character DOT assigned code ABC
Carrier entity code Numeric 5 DOT assigned code 01111
Year Numeric 4 Year (CCYY) 2010
Month Numeric 2 Month (MM) 03
Type of Expenses Numeric 1 T = TOTAL Direct Expenses, by Aircraft T
Aircraft Type Numeric 3 Indicate TOTAL FOR ALL AIRCRAFT = 999 999
Aircraft configuration Numeric 1 Indicate TOTAL FOR ALL AIRCRAFT = 9 9
Flying Ops
(line 1 on the F2 Non-AK form)		 Numeric -- Pilot and co-pilot expense including salaries/fringes/ allocated housing /utilities 246.02
Aircraft fuel & oil
(line 2 on the F2 Non-AK form)		 Numeric -- Aircraft fuel and oil issued 246.04
Other<
(line 3 on the F2 Non-AK form)		 Numeric -- - Hull insurance expense to cover the structure of the aircraft.
- Expenses incurred for keeping operational personnel in readiness for assignment to an in-flight status.
- All other in-flight operations expenses otherwise not provided for on this schedule.		 246.06
Maintenance of flight equipment
(line 5 on the F2 Non-AK form)		 Numeric -- Maintenance expenses including salaries /fringes /allocated housing /hangar /utilities 246.10
Depreciation/rental of flight equipment
(line 6 on the F2 Non-AK form)		 Numeric -- Depreciation of cost of rental equipment to include property taxes 246.12

Sample TOTAL Direct Expenses, by Aircraft, Record (one record reported):

          ABC,01111,2010,03,T,999,9,246.02,246.04,246.06,246.10,246.12

F-2 Alaskan – Indirect Expenses (one record reported)

Field Description Data Type Length Comments Sample Data
Carrier code Character 3 Two Character IATA code or
Three Character DOT assigned code		 ABC
Carrier entity code Numeric 5 DOT assigned code 01111
Year Numeric 4 Year (CCYY) 2010
Month Numeric 2 Month (MM) 03
Type of Expenses Numeric 1 I = Indirect Expenses I
Flight attendants<
line 8 on the F2 Non-AK form) 		Numeric --- Flight attendants expenses including salaries/fringes/ allocated housing /utilities 123.08
Traffic related
(line 9 on the F2 Non-AK form) 		Numeric --- Any expenses such as advertising. Any expense associated with promoting the airline 123.09
Departure/Station
(line 10 on the F2 Non-AK form) 		Numeric --- Village agents/ station agents expenses including salaries/fringes/ allocated housing /utilities/ground equipment 123.10
Capacity/Administrative
(line 11 on the F2 Non-AK form) 		Numeric --- Expenses including salaries/fringes/ allocated housing /building/utilities 123.11

Sample Indirect Expenses Record (one record reported):

ABC,01111,2010,03,I,123.08,123.09,123.10,123.11

RECORD FORMAT:

The F-2 Aircraft Operating Expenses and Related Statistics - Non Alaskan Air Carriers must be created as an electronic “comma separated values” file, using ASCII text character encoding, for uploading via the “eSubmit” application.

The comma separated values file MUST BE indicated when naming the file, by using the letters [CSV] or [csv] following the file name, as the file name extension.

The file name is flexible and may be determined by the individual air carrier, but the comma separated values (csv) file format is required, as outlined in the rule entitled, Submitting Airline Data via the Internet.

The fields in the sample record shown below follow the same order as the above record description, separated by commas, and saved with the file name extension of .csv.

Suggested file name: XX201003-Form298C-F2.csv

Sample Record Format:

          ABC,01111,2010,03,D,035,1,123.01,123.02,123.03,123.05,123.06
          ABC,01111,2010,03,D,036,1,123.01,123.02,123.03,123.05,123.06
          ABC,01111,2010,03,T,999,9,246.02,246.04,246.06,246.10,246.12
          ABC,01111,2010,03,I,123.08,123.09,123.10,123.11