As used in the Rural Air Service Enhancement Act:

A. “air route” means any scheduled operation or public charter;

B. “charter flight” means a flight operated under the terms of a charter contract between a direct air carrier and the carrier’s customer. “Charter flight” does not include scheduled air transportation, scheduled foreign air transportation or nonscheduled cargo air transportation, sold on an individually ticketed or individually waybilled basis;

C. “department” means the department of transportation; D. “director” means the director of the division;

E. “division” means the aviation division of the department;

F. “expanded air route” means an air route served by the rural air service enhancement grant program that expands passenger capacity or the number of scheduled operations or public charter flights from what was served at the time a grant was made;

G. “minimum revenue guarantee” means the amount of money guaranteed by a municipality or county to be earned by an airline providing scheduled air services to and from that municipality or county, which is the difference between the minimum flight charge revenue specified in the contract between the municipality or county and the airline and the amount of actual flight charge revenue received by the airline that is less than that contractual amount;

H. “new air route” means an air route to be served by the rural air service enhancement grant program that was not served prior to January 1, 2021;

I. “public charter” means a one-way or round-trip charter flight to be performed by one or more direct air carriers that is arranged and sponsored by a charter operator; and

J. “scheduled operation” means any common carriage passenger-carrying operation for compensation or hire conducted by an air carrier for which the air carrier or the air carrier’s representatives offers in advance the departure location, departure time and arrival location.