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During the 71 years since its being signed at Warsaw, when commercial aviation was still in its infancy, the "Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to International Carriage by Air", known as the Warsaw Convention, has gained acceptance throughout the world. It has become the Magna Charta of the liability of the international air carrier, which in many countries, applies even .to domesti.c air carriage. It is noteworthy that of the six amending Protocols which have been adopted since the conception of the Convention whith a view to bringing it up to date, only the first one, signed at the Hague in 1955, has come into force. That Protocol has reformulated the conditions of Unlimited liability, increased the limits of liability and make some minor technical changes. This article focuses on the main characteristics of the Warsaw Convention and some of
its protocols. It includes a caseby-case analysis of selected