4.2 Nepalese Experience on Air Carrier's Liability

The treaty position: Nepal is a Warsaw-Hague party (the 1966 accession — Unit 1.4) — the Montreal 1999's accession approved (2018) with the completion's status to be stated carefully against the current tables; the practical world: the international carriers serving Nepal largely apply the Montreal-type regimes (the own-liability codes of the modern carriers — the IATA-era practice); the national law's layer. The national law's faces: the Civil Aviation Act 2053 and its rules (the carriage's conditions; the licensing's conditions importing the international standards); the contract-and-consumer layer (the consumer-protection law's application to the passengers' rights; the general contract law's default); the insurance's regime (the compulsory passenger-liability insurance of the carriers licensed in Nepal). The Nepalese experience's chapters (the honest audit — the discussion answer's material): The accidents' ledger — the mountain-and-weather aviation's tragedies (the terrain's challenge — the world's most demanding approaches); the victims' compensation practice (the international-standard settlements' negotiation; the domestic flights' lower-compensation reality — the two-tier victims' question); The EU ban's story — the safety-oversight concerns' market consequence (the European carriers' ban on the Nepali carriers: the liability-and-safety interface — the oversight's capacity as the passengers' protection); The investigations' discipline — the Accident Investigation Regulation 2071's machinery (the independent investigation's questions — the CAAN's twin-role debate); The reform's agenda — the Montreal accession's completion; the domestic-compensation floor's modernisation; the…