Cap. 434 Art. 16Applicability to rail transport products.

(1) Subject to the provisions of subarticles (2) to (5), the provisions of this Act apply where a system vendor decides to include rail services in the principal display of its computerized reservation system.

(2) Where a system vendor decides to include rail products in the principal display of its computerized reservation system, it may choose to include only certain well-defined categories of rail services, while respecting the principles stated in article 3(2).

(3) A rail transport operator shall be deemed to be a participating or parent carrier, as appropriate, for the purposes of this Act, insofar as it has an agreement with a system vendor for the distribution of its products through the principal display of a computerized reservation system or where its own reservation system is a computerized reservation system as defined in article 2. Subject to subarticle (4), those products shall be treated in the same manner as air transport products and shall be incorporated in the principal display in accordance with the criteria set out in the First Schedule.

(4) (a) When applying the rules laid down in paragraphs 1 and 2 of the First Schedule to rail services, the system vendor shall adjust the ranking principles for the principal display in order to take due account of the needs of consumers to be adequately informed of rail services that represent a competitive alternative to the air services. In particular, system vendors may rank rail services with a limited number of short stops with non-stop direct air services. to the Director at least two months before their application.

(5) For the purposes of this article, all references to "flights" in this Act shall be deemed to include references to "rail services" and references to "air transport products" shall be deemed to include references to "rail products".