Overview

Aviation is one of the most regulated industries in the world. The law impacts upon the aviation industry more or less directly from the international level right down to the domestic level in every place it operates. It is imperative that aviation professionals and those in related industries have an appreciation of which laws apply to aviation business and an understanding of how those laws work. Therefore, this unit is designed to help aviation undergraduate students to develop a good understanding and appreciation of domestic and international laws that apply to aviation industry. In particular, it focuses on how international treaties affect airlines’ strategic decisions and operations

Requisites

Teaching periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Discuss fundamental principles contained in international conventions such as Chicago Convention and their implications to international air transport
  • Discuss and explain how international air transport is regulated and negotiated between the sovereign states
  • Discuss and explain how sovereign states such as Australia issues international route licence and allocates its international traffic rights to international carriers
  • Discuss and describe the principles of aviation security and carrier’s liability contained in international conventions and domestic legislation
  • Demonstrate, both individually and in a team environment, the ability to examine, analyse, and communicate verbally and in writing air traffic on country-pair markets and discuss how the regulations and traffic rights arrangements affect airline’s strategies and operation in a country-pairmarket

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
Face to Face Contact (Phasing out)
Lecture
2.00 12 weeks 24
Face to Face Contact (Phasing out)
Tutorial
1.00 12 weeks 12
Unspecified Learning Activities (Phasing out)
Independent Learning
9.50 12 weeks 114
TOTAL150

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
EssayIndividual 30 - 40% 1,2,3,4,5 
PortfolioIndividual 10 - 20% 1,2,3,4,5 
Research PresentationGroup 10 - 20% 1,2,3,4,5 
Research ReportGroup 30 - 40% 1,2,3,4,5 

Hurdle

As the minimum requirements of assessment to pass a unit and meet all ULOs to a minimum standard, an undergraduate student must have achieved:

an aggregate mark for the unit of 50% or more.

Content

  • Chicago Convention and air law
  • Bilateral/multilateral air services agreements and negotiations,
  • Airline deregulation, liberalisation and Open Skies
  • Conventions and regulations on carriers’ liability 
  • Conventions and regulations on aviation security 
  • Airport, airline alliance and competition 
  • Domestic and international organisations regulating aviation industry  

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.