This article discusses remedies and methods of enforcing airline liability for loss, damage or delay of passenger luggage.  The article includes a discussion of the law as it relates both to domestic flights and to international flights where passenger baggage is lost, damaged or delayed.  The article includes a discussion of the Warsaw Convention as it relates to international flights and of the Federal Aviation Regulations applicable in the case of domestic flights.

This article appeared in the Volume 54, Number 4, December 2006/January 2007 issue of the Louisiana Bar Journal, published by the Louisiana State Bar Association.   It may be cited as M. R. Franks, Remedies for Loss, Damage or Delay of Airline Luggage, 54 Louisiana Bar Journal 256 (2006).  Copyright © 2006, M. R. Franks, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Copyright © 2006, Louisiana State Bar Association.  Reprinted with permission.

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A longer, more detailed article by the same author on the same subject may be found in the Fordham Journal of Corporate and Financial Law.  Click here to proceed to the Fordham article.

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