ABSTRACT
The general structure of the Warsaw Convention (WSC) and many of its provisions were retained in MC, which came into force in the UK on 28 June 2004. A significant feature of MC is that, unlike other transport law regimes, in certain cases the carrier’s liability is absolute. Writing in 1996,1 a Legal Adviser to the US Department of State said that previously ‘‘the tort law concept of unlimited liability was anathema . . . . Today, it is a fixture of international air law that the US Government would be most reluctant to see disappear.’’
