La. Stat. tit. 45 § 1
Current with changes from the 2024 Legislative Session
For the purposes of this Chapter any person, whether owner, lessee or otherwise, who at any time carries or transports passengers in an airplane for a price or consideration, whether the passengers are carried from one point to another or whether they are carried into the air and returned to the point from which they started, is engaged in the business of carrying persons for hire by airplane.
La. R.S. § 45:1