---
kind: "section"
citation: "45 U.S.C. § 181"
title: "45"
title_heading: "Railroads"
number: "181"
heading: "Application of subchapter I to carriers by air"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/45/181"
units:
  - "Chapter 8 — Railway Labor"
  - "Subchapter II — Carriers by Air"
---

# §181. Application of subchapter I to carriers by air


All of the provisions of subchapter I of this chapter except [section 153 of this title](/usc/45/153.md) are extended to and shall cover every common [carrier](/usc/45/151.md) by air engaged in interstate or foreign [commerce](/usc/45/151.md), and every [carrier](/usc/45/151.md) by air transporting mail for or under contract with the United States Government, and every air pilot or other person who performs any work as an [employee](/usc/45/151.md) or subordinate official of such [carrier](/usc/45/151.md) or [carriers](/usc/45/151.md), subject to its or their continuing authority to supervise and direct the manner of rendition of his service.


## Source credit

(May 20, 1926, ch. 347, § 201, as added Apr. 10, 1936, ch. 166, 49 Stat. 1189.)