ABSTRACT
After the failure of the Chicago Conference in 1944 to arrive at a multilateral system for regulating international air transport, international air transport has been mainly governed by a web of country-to-country bilateral agreements. These air transport bilaterals specify the international routes that airlines of each country may fly, the method for determining airfares on the routes, the number of carriers that may fly on the routes, methods for settling disputes between the signatories of the agreement, and a myriad of ‘doing business’ rules concerning, for example, the provision of ground services at airports in each country.
