New compensation laws to bring Australia in line with Montreal Convention

[KeithMEL]

http://www.smh.com.au/news/travel/fl...602581463.html

FOREIGN airlines will have to pay up to $8000 a person for delayed flights, $1800 for lost luggage and $180,000 compensation for injury or death in a plane crash under new laws proposed by the Rudd Government.

[super bean flicker]

Sounds a bit unfair... that foreign airlines must pay but domestic ones don't need to

[Guy Betsy]

Montreal Convention?

We don't even have that kind of compensation in Canada!

[KeithMEL]

But I thought Canada has ratified the Montreal Convention?

http://www.icao.int/icao/en/leb/mtl99.pdf

Only applies to international travel though.