List carriage facts before any air-carrier claim is written
Key facts
- Human involvement
- RedLawyer-led
- How AI is used
- List the carrier, the date, the places named, and whether the file describes baggage, cargo, or delay. Do not state a notice period, a time bar, or a damages figure, and do not write the claim.
- What the lawyer must review
- You write the claim after you open the instrument that governs it. Congress.gov Treaty Document 106-45 is the Senate transmittal of September 6, 2000. It identifies the Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air, done at Montreal on May 28, 1999, and it discusses a proposed Article 57(a) declaration. On the pages read it does not set out the notice periods or a damages cap. Do not take a period from that transmittal. 14 CFR Part 260 is a refund rule for a covered carrier on a cancelled or significantly delayed or changed flight to, from, or within the United States, and for certain bag and ancillary fees. It is not a claim under the Convention. Model Rule 1.4(b) requires you to explain that the period has not been taken from the Convention text. You open that text before you send a notice or file a claim.
- Written for / version
- United States versionUS
Who does what
| Role | What they do |
|---|---|
| Assistance | Supporting preparation only. Consider narrowly defined preparation support after confirming the tool’s capability and permitted scope. The tool writes nothing into the document. Substantive advice, judgement and any restricted content remain with the responsible human. |
| Lawyer | Perform the substantive analysis and decisions. Independently check any permitted supporting work and approve the exact output for its intended use. |
Checklist
- Calculate operative dates independently from the current rule and actual triggering event. Check exceptions and record the verified deadline.
- Confirm the output against the client’s instructions and the complete relevant source material, including omissions or contradictions.
- Resolve exceptions and record the responsible lawyer’s approval of the exact output and intended use.
Forms and precedents for this task
| Form or precedent | Kind | AI use | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montreal Convention notice of complaint and claim letter to an air carrier (baggage, cargo or delay) | Letter | AI use Yellow | Written complaint and claim to an air carrier under the 1999 Montreal Convention as enacted in Sch 1A of the Civil Aviation (Carriers’ Liability) Act 1959: the Art 31 complaint windows (7, 14 and 21 days), the Art 35 two-year limit, and a time-bar table. |
Signed-in accounts can read the full text of each one. All precedents.