This article was originally posted on Drone Law Canada, Canada’s only drone blog dedicated to legal and regulatory issues facing the drone industry in Canada.

This article was originally posted at Drone Law Canada, Canada’s only drone blog dedicated to legal and regulatory issues facing the drone industry in Canada.

Note: This article originally appeared in the Alexander Holburn blog on May 14, 2019. It is reprinted with permission

The Annual Meeting & Conference for the ABA Forum on Air & Space Law was held in Chicago on September 27-28, 2018. As we have now come to expect the program was well thought out and the panels were thoughtful and well-planned.

Note: This article was originally posted on the Bersenas Jacobsen Chouest Thomson Blackburn website and is reprinted here with permission.

This is an abstract of an article in the Annals of Air and Space Law, Vol. 41 (2016), which is published by McGill University's Institute of Air and Space Law. The full article is available to subscribers or for purchase only.

It goes without saying that our society’s mentality nowadays revolves around throwing away anything and everything that no longer serves our purposes rather than altering or fixing it, in order for it to correspond to our current interests.

Subsidy allegations against the three major Middle-Eastern carriers – Emirates Airlines, Etihad Airways, and Qatar Airways – have been brought by the three major U.S. carriers – American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, and United Airlines – which claim that the Gulf trio receive letters of credit and subsidies from their governments.

On November 1, 1996, the Canadian federal government transferred responsibility for its air traffic control system to a private nonprofit corporation. The new entity, NAV Canada, backed by the airline industry, acquired the Canadian civil air navigation system from the govern¬ment for C$1.5 billion.1 In addition, NAV Canada arranged for a further $1.5 billion in financial backing.

Bill C-49, the Transportation Modernization Act, had its second reading in the House of Commons on June 19, 2017.