Warsaw Convention

American  

noun

1. a multilateral treaty on aviation set up chiefly to limit air carriers' liability to passengers and shippers on international flights in the event of an accident.

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Example Sentences

Iran is not a member of the Montreal treaty but only its less flexible predecessor, known as the Warsaw Convention.

From Reuters • Jan. 17, 2020

As an alternative to rewriting the Warsaw Convention, the U.S. proposes that the liability limit be raised temporarily to $75,000, eventually to a permanent ceiling of $100,000.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week, after years of fruitless efforts to have the Warsaw Convention rewritten, the U.S. announced that it will unilaterally denounce the treaty next May unless changes are made.

From Time Magazine Archive

The three had lost an early round, in 1949, when Pan Am's lawyers invoked the Warsaw Convention, a 1929 international agreement which sets a ceiling of $8,291.67 damages in an international flight accident.

From Time Magazine Archive

Court settlements of crash claims against domestic U.S. airlines, to which the Warsaw Convention does not apply, have averaged $25,281 over a ten-year period.

From Time Magazine Archive