Aviation and International Cooperation Human and Public Policy Issue
This book addresses an essential gap in the regulatory regime, which provides legislation, statements and guidelines on airlines, airports, air navigation services providers and States in the field of aviation, but is notably lacking when it comes to the
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Aviation and International Cooperation Human and Public Policy Issues
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Ruwantissa Abeyratne
Aviation and International Cooperation Human and Public Policy Issues
Ruwantissa Abeyratne Global Aviation Consultancies Inc. Cote Saint Luc, Que´bec Canada
ISBN 978-3-319-17021-3 ISBN 978-3-319-17022-0 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-17022-0
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Preface
This book was commenced in December 2014 when the world was celebrating 100 years of commercial aviation and 70 years of the existence of the Convention on Civil Aviation signed at Chicago on 7 December 1944. Now, popularly known as the Chicago Convention, this multilateral treaty created the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) which has, as one of its aims and objectives, to meet the needs of the people of the world for safe, regular, efficient and economical air transport. The Chicago Convention, in its Preamble says inter alia that the future development of international civil aviation can greatly help to create and preserve friendship and understanding among the nations and peoples of the world. These are the only two references in the entirety of the treaty to people. All other references are to States, aircraft, airports and other component elements of the aviation world. Although passengers are mentioned in other provisions of the treaty, such references are always in association with aircraft or States or other instrumentalities. There is a bewildering and startling lack of focus on or attention to the person affected by aviation, and in particular passenger, let alone his or her rights. A perceived anomaly in avia
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