Article 179 Commercial air transport and aerial work – exceptions – recovery of direct costsI1
United Kingdom
Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), a flight is a private flight if the only valuable consideration given or promised for the flight or the purpose of the flight is one or more of the following—
valuable consideration specified in article 173(1);
in the case of an aircraft owned in accordance with article 180(2), valuable consideration that falls within article 180(3);
the payment of the whole or part of the direct costs otherwise payable by the pilot in command by or on behalf of the employer of the pilot in command, or by or on behalf of a body corporate of which the pilot in command is a director.
Neither the pilot in command nor any other person who is carried is legally obliged, whether under a contract or otherwise, to be carried on the flight.
If valuable consideration specified in article 173(1) is given or promised the flight is a commercial air transport flight for the purposes of Part 3 and Part 4 (other than articles 37(2) and 39(2)).