ABSTRACT
Today, approximately 120 years after a frail craft made of metal, wood, and fabric struggled into the air and carried a single passenger 120 feet, the world is enveloped by a network of air routes. Representatives from the allied and associated nations met in Paris in 1919 and formed the International Commission for Air Navigation and enacted the International Air Navigation Code, usually referred to as the Paris Convention of 1919. The convention for the unification of certain rules relating to international air transportation applies to any international transportation of persons, baggage, or merchandise by aircraft for compensations. World War II had a tremendous impact on the technical development of air transportation. By early 1981 the new president's policy staff was being barraged with criticism of the previous administration's policies from incumbent operators, who were less than enamored of the relentless pursuit of pure competition.
