ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on several major areas within airline operations with a view to highlight the structure of specific relationships and duties that devolve from the international conventions and state laws that govern aviation. It is presented in such a way as to provide the reader –the aviation practitioner – with an awareness of the scope and broader implications of the aviation legal and regulatory requirements, at both the international and national level, as they apply to airline operations. The chapter examines the international framework for airline operations and how these are translated from International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) statements into the various national laws and codes. It examines airline engineering and airworthiness requirements and examines that airworthiness finds its roots in the SARPs of an annex to the Chicago Convention. Airline management may be regarded as something of a fine art requiring business acumen, sound judgment and knowledge of a vast array of technological assets.
