carriage by air

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Carriage by air.

The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) is the agency responsible for matters related to compliance for goods offered to airlines for carriage by air.

The Warsaw Convention on International Carriage by Air deals with questions of liability regarding the international movement of passengers, luggage, and cargo by aircraft.

The convention was an agreement to establish terms, conditions and limitations of liability for carriage by air, this was the first recognition of the airline industry as we know it today.

The Air Navigation Order 1982 defines an Air Transport Undertaking as 'any undertaking whose business includes the carriage by air of passengers or cargo for valuable consideration'.

On 17 August 1923, the French government proposed the convening of a diplomatic conference in November 1923 for the purpose of concluding a convention relating to liability in international carriage by air.

The "Warsaw Convention", formally the "Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to the International Carriage by Air", went into effect after receiving the necessary ratifications.

In the event of loss or damage to checked baggage, a Property Irregularity Report must be obtained from the airline in question, within seven days to comply with the Carriage By Air Act (Warsaw Convention).

The Montreal Convention, formally the Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air, is a treaty adopted by a Diplomatic meeting of ICAO member states in 1999.

In 1929 Major Beaumont attended, as an observer on behalf of the IATA, a conference in Warsaw at which the Warsaw Convention for the unification of certain rules relating to international carriage by air was drafted.

The "Protocol to Amend the Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to International Carriage by Air signed at Warsaw on 12 October 1929", commonly known as the Hague Protocol, came into effect.

By its Contract with you ILG Travel Limited does not enter into an Agreement for carriage by air but only undertakes to reserve on your behalf accommodation on board an aircraft operated by one or other of the airlines mentioned in this brochure or such other airline as may be substituted.