A Research On Air Passenger Transport Delay Problem And Its Legal Relief Suggestions

Currently, flight delays can be described as the focal point of the air transport industry, people choose air transport because air transport has the advantages of sufficient and convenient, but there are not only has advantages, also some disadvantages, due to the special nature of the high standards of air transport safety, flight delays are unavoidable. Therefore, when flights are delayed, how to pursue the responsibility of the carrier is very meaningful and it’s also the key to the disputes between passengers and airlines. The concept of "delay" as defined by analysis of different reasons for delays and classification come to a reasonable delay and unreasonable delay distinguish clearly the delay in the application of law in the air passenger transport, and reasonable and unreasonable delay in the carrier’s liability for analysis. The combination of the delay rules and practices of the United States, France, China’s relevant regulations and practice were analyzed and compared to some of China’s legislative system, and properly handle disputes recommendations. In this paper there a total of four parts:The first part discusses how to define "flight delays" and analyzed the meaning of the characteristics and application of law of the contract of carriage of air passengers; The second part analyzes the liability issues caused by flight delays and the causes of the reason for the delay flights; the third section describes the practice of domestic and international provisions on delays and airlines; China flight delays on the part of the content recommended in part IV. Finally the conclusion is that China needs to improve the laws and regulations on flight delays as soon as possible, to improve after the interests of quality of service, the balance of airlines and passengers, reduce flight delays, disputes and loss.