Promotes safe, regular and economical air transport and is a means of collaboration amongst air transport operators. IATA has drawn up standard conditions relating to the carriage of passengers and baggage setting out limits of liability. Carriers are always free to use their own conditions. The IATA Inter-Carrier Agreement on Passenger Liability has ‘modernised’ the Warsaw Convention.
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Association formed in 1945, following the Chicago Convention of 1944 The main objects of the Association are:(a) to promote safe, regular and economical air transport for the benefit of the world, to foster air commerce, and to study the problems connected therewith; (b) to provide means for collaborating among the air transport enterprises engaged directly or indirectly in international air transport services; and (iii) to co-operate with International Civil Aviation Organizations and other international organizations.