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In December, a federal appeals court ruled in favor of the FAA, determining it was allowed to shut down Flytenow on the basis of the agency’s definition of common carriage.

From Slate • Feb. 17, 2016

If the FAA adopted a less expansive, common-sense definition of common carriage, then a service such as Flytenow would clearly be legal.

From Slate • Feb. 17, 2016

That definition has little resemblance to the traditional common law definitions of common carriage, which typically apply to companies that publish regular routes, schedules, and rates.

From Slate • Feb. 17, 2016

Circuit laid out a legal path for the FCC to regulate pay-for-priority deals without resort to common carriage.

From Forbes • Nov. 3, 2014

The ladies at Stowhill and Greenhill are unanimously of opinion, that it will be best to take a post chaise, and not to be troubled with the vexations of a common carriage.

From Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes by Johnson, Samuel