The Air Carrier’s Liability for Damages Caused to the Second Party

For 70 years, the Convention on the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to International Carriage by Air, more commonly known as the Warsaw Convention (1929), had been the most important treaty regulating the relations of private international aviation law, until it was replaced by a new international treaty, the Montreal Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air (1999). Of the international aviation law treaties drafted under the guidance of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the Montreal Convention is at present the most important treaty of private international aviation law. Its specialty is hidden in its legal institutions, which support the universal predominance of the Montreal Convention. The contracting Parties introduced legal institutions familiar and transplanted from the Warsaw Convention or utterly new ones, all of which aim at its ratification by as many countries as possible so that private international legal unification can be accomplished in the broadest possible scope.