Consecutive air carriers

21.1	When air transportation is made by several consecutive airlines it is deemed as sole transportation if, from the beginning of transportation these airlines considered such operations as sole transportation and such transportation was foreseen by one reservation and issued by one or joint tickets.
21.2	In the case of operation of sole transportations, every air carrier, which accepts the transportation of passengers and baggage (cargo) and provide its services is subject to action of these rules in terms of transportation, which it carries out.
21.3	The air carrier, which issued the ticket, or the first air carrier indicated on the ticket or joint ticket, shall not bear the responsibility for defects in transportation that happened on segment (segments) of carriage by another air carrier (air carriers) including segments of delay or denial of transportation of a passenger or baggage.
21.4	In the case of destruction, loss, damage or delay in baggage transportation, the passenger has a right to claim against the first or the last air carrier, as well as against the air carrier who carried out transportation, during which destruction, loss, damage or delay in baggage transportation occurred.
21.5	If it is impossible to define which air carrier carried out the transportation, during which destruction, loss, damage or delay in baggage transportation occurred, the joint responsibility to the passenger shall be borne by the air carriers.