ABSTRACT
Aviation has been subject to stringent legal and regulatory control. Regulations pertaining to flights in balloons and airships had been developed and promulgated in the eighteenth century. Aviation is a form of transportation, and not surprisingly requires a unique form of regulation. The regulation of aviation is as fundamental and important to the industry as civil order is to modern society. To provide an insight into the application and importance of both public and private international air law to the aviation industry, three major international conventions are examined. To develop the principles and techniques of international air navigation and foster the planning and development of international air transport so as to insure the safe and orderly growth of international civil aviation throughout the world. The Warsaw Convention 1929 represented the first uniform international effort to implement universal laws relating to international air carriage, especially in respect of carriers' liability.
