Liability of Successive Carriers

• Author: John D. Holding
• Pages: 53-54

Chapter 6: Liability of Successive

Carriers

A. GENERAL

The Montreal and Warsaw Conventions both provide that, in the

case of carriage performed by several successive carriers, each car-

rier who accepts passengers, baggage, or cargo is subject to the

rules of the Conventions and deemed to be a party to the contract

of carriage insofar as it relates to that part of the carriage per-

formed by that carrier.1

B. PASSENGER COMPENSATION

Action for passenger death, injury, or delay can be taken only

against the carrier which performed the carriage during which the

death, injury, or delay occurred.2

1 Montreal Convention, art. 36, para. 1; Warsaw Convention, art. 30.

2 Montreal Convention, art. 36, para. 2; Warsaw Convention, art. 30(2).

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