ABSTRACT
Born out of shared concerns, international and national organisations ‘feature prominently in the development of both public and private international aviation law.’ Aviation industry encompasses a great number of global and national bodies. The growing complexity of the aviation industry and its linkages with neighbouring areas such as energy, environmental protection, and monetary affairs, encouraged the creation of a new type of actor in global politics, thereby contributing to a marked diversification of actors both domestically and internationally. The influence has grown to such a degree that international governmental organisations and nongovernmental organisations have now become significant actors in global governance through transnational civil society networks. The beginnings of the contemporary international aviation system can be traced to a unilateral declaration by Britain on the eve of World War I, the underlying principle of which came to constitute the system’s foundation.
