The effects of the amendments to the baggage check provisions of the Warsaw Convention: clearing the way for more efficient check-in procedures.

From: Transportation Law Journal | Date: March 22, 2001| Author: Flener, Gillian | Copyright information

INTRODUCTION

Under the Warsaw Convention, passengers with lost or damaged baggage could recover the full amount of their baggage if they could show that an airline failed to comply with baggage check provisions.(1) However, Montreal Protocol No. 4, which amends the Warsaw Convention, in part, by eliminating two of the baggage check requirements, took effect in the United States on March 4, 1999.(2) Further, the Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules of Internati...

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