Air Carrier's Liability for Damages According to the New Montreal Convention

  • Slobodan Kaštela
  • Zvonko Miljak
  • Josip Božičević
Keywords: air carrier, liability, Montreal Convention

Abstract

The liability of air carriers in international air traffic is stillregulated by the Warsaw Convention from 1929and its amendments.In 1999the Montreal Convention was accepted, whichcompletely substitutes the rules contained in the Warsaw Conventionincluding all its later amendments, and the most importantmodifications have been made regarding the air can·iers'liabilities in case of passenger injury or death on intemationaI flights.

References

(1] Annual Report of the Council (Doc 9752), ICAO, Montreal,

(2] Cheng, B.: The Warsaw System: the way fmward. The

Aviation Quarterly, Part 3, London, 1998

(3] Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International

Can·iage by Air (Doc 57), ICAO, Montreal,

(4] Schwenk, W.: Handbuch des Luftverkehrsrechts. Carl

Heymanns Verlag KG, Berlin, 1996.

Steiner, S.: Elementi sigumosti zracnog prometa. Fakultet

prometnih znanosti, Zagreb, 1998

How to Cite
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Kaštela S, Miljak Z, Božičević J. Air Carrier’s Liability for Damages According to the New Montreal Convention. Promet [Internet]. 1 [cited 2024Apr.19];13(1):55-8. Available from: http://traffic.fpz.hr/index.php/PROMTT/article/view/1096
Issue
Vol 13 No 1 (2001)
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