Originally Posted by
PABitz
Read 14 C.F.R. 250.2 with reference to the definitions in 14 C.F.R. 250.1. Summary: No part of Part 250 applies to aircraft with fewer than 60 seats.
Read it again - it was amended last year to change the minumum number of seats to 30:
http://airconsumer.dot.gov/rules/part%20250.pdf
Sec. 250.2 Applicability.
This part applies to every carrier, as defined in § 250.1, with respect to scheduled flight segments using an aircraft that has a designed passenger capacity of 30 or more passenger seats, operating in (1) interstate air transportation or (2) foreign air transportation with respect to nonstop flight segments originating at a point within the United States.
[ER-1306, 47 FR 52985, Nov. 24, 1982, as amended at 68 FR 52836, Sept. 8, 2003; 73 FR 21026, April 18, 2008]