Modernise Carriage by Air Act to eliminate uncertainties

Kenya’s reliance on a domestic liability regime that offers no room for inflationary adjustments on compensation limits has rendered the Act ineffective in protecting consumers.

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Kenya’s Carriage by Air Act No. 2 of 1993 is modelled on the 1929 Warsaw Convention, a framework created nearly a century ago to support the then nascent international air transport industry.

The Convention was conceived for two main goals: To standardise handling of claims arising from international air transportation, and to limit air carriers’ potential liability in the event of accidents, which is evidently its overriding objective.

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