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The book examines the significant impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on air transport facilitation, particularly through the lens of the Chicago Convention's Annex 9. It explores how public health measures will shape future air travel practices, covering topics such as aircraft clearance, passenger entry and departure, and cargo transport. Key discussions include the roles of ICAO, public health issues, travel document security, digital technology, and the rights of passengers, as well as critical aviation events from 2020 and 2021 related to these themes.

Focusing on the intersection of the pandemic and air transport, the book explores the legal, ethical, economic, and trade implications stemming from the crisis. It begins with a timeline of the virus's spread and delves into its impact on human perspectives. The narrative evaluates trade and economic repercussions, alongside the legal frameworks governing communicable diseases in aviation. It addresses the liabilities of states, airlines, and airports, concluding with recommendations for enhancing legal and regulatory systems to better prepare for future pandemics.

Exploring the intersection of aviation and technology, this book delves into the impact of algorithms on sovereignty, cybercrime, and privacy within the context of the Chicago Convention. It highlights the need to reassess this 75-year-old treaty in light of advancements like Moore's Law. Key topics include data sovereignty, AI's role in international law, blockchain, drones, and cybersecurity. The analysis emphasizes the duty of care in aviation practices and proposes strategies for navigating the evolving landscape of aeronautical communications and passenger identification.

Focusing on the crucial intersection of law and aviation safety, the book emphasizes the need for a robust legal framework in the rapidly evolving air transport industry. It critiques the International Civil Aviation Organization's (ICAO) current scope and highlights emerging issues like cyber-crime, artificial intelligence regulation, and climate change. The text also advocates for educating future aviation professionals in air law and addresses pressing challenges such as human trafficking, unruly passengers, and the legal implications surrounding drones and cabin crew.

This book delves into the legal and regulatory framework of the air cargo sector, covering topics like carriage principles, AI integration, hazardous goods, and cargo security. It highlights the industry's economic significance, with airlines transporting 52 million metric tons of goods annually, valued at $6.8 trillion.

The book critiques the role of ICAO after the 6th Worldwide Air Transport Conference, questioning whether its primary function should be to analyze industry trends and provide guidance rather than simply updating air transport policies of member countries. It emphasizes the need for a more proactive approach to shaping the future of air transport, highlighting the importance of strategic oversight in an evolving global landscape.

This book addresses emerging legal and economic issues in competition and investment in air transport, against the backdrop of the role governments and airlines should play in avoiding protectionism and encouraging innovation and creativity.

This book addresses an essential gap in the regulatory regime, which provides legislation, statements and guidelines on airlines, airports, air navigation services providers and States in the field of aviation, but is notably lacking when it comes to the rights of the airline passenger, and the average citizen who is threatened by military air strikes. It addresses subjects such as international resolutions on human rights and other human rights conventions related to aviation that impact both air transport consumers and people on the ground who are threatened by air strikes through drone attacks; disabled and obese airline passengers; compensation for delayed carriage and the denial of carriage; noise and air pollution caused by aviation and their effects on human health and wellbeing; prevention of death or injury to passengers and attendant compensatory rights; risk management; relief flights; and racial profiling. These subjects are addressed against the backdrop of real case studies that include but are not limited to instances of drone attacks, and contentious flights in the year 2014 such as MH 370, MH 17 and QZ 8501.

This book provides a look at the various nuances of the commercial aspects of space transport and offers a workable and practical legal and regulatory approach to be taken by the International Civil Aviation Organization. The book also addresses the perceived lack of wisdom in neglecting to consider the basic legal structure of a regulatory regime for commercial space transport as a first step and goes on to analyze ways and means of using the existing legal instruments pertaining to international civil aviation as an analogous system that can be moulded into a separate and cohesive set of multilateral legal instruments that could apply to commercial space transport. As expected, commercial space transport has taken off with a flourish. It is now evident that, from sub-orbital flights to mining asteroids, this industry will grow exponentially. Signs of its importance are reflected by various international conferences being convened on the subject both by academia and the international community. The only snag is the lack of a regulatory instrument or in the least a contrived approach to a definitive legal regime that would provide a structure, purpose and direction to commercial space transport. This blatant lacuna and neglect has resulted in the emergence of various theories by academics and a half hearted look at the subject by the international legal community.

Focusing on aviation security, this book examines emerging threats and evaluates current security measures like the Public Key Directory and Advance Passenger Information. It delves into the legal and regulatory frameworks surrounding these tools and discusses relevant security treaties. Additionally, it offers insights into the security audit processes conducted by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), providing a comprehensive understanding of the intersection between law and aviation safety.