Every day, around the world, approximately 93,000 flights ascend
from 9,000 airports. Having become a regular mode of travel and
statistically recognized as exponentially safer than driving, most
aircraft passengers would not think to question the liability
responsibilities of a carrier. Unfortunately, accidents (whether
that be injury, death, damage, or delay) are inevitable. Aware of
such risk, the international community began enacting international
carriage protocol safeguarding compensation for victims of aircraft
calamities in 1929. Eighty-nine years later, and regularly reviewed
by modern-day courts, multilateral treaties establishing
compensation rights have evolved to suffice the developing needs of
the international landscape.
