Legal issues relating to unruly passengers
Further to the Protocol to Amend the Convention on Offences and Certain Other Acts Committed on Board Aircraft (Montréal Protocol of 2014) adopted by the Diplomatic Conference on 4 April 2014, and pursuant to the resolution adopted by the Conference, the Task Force on Legal Aspects of Unruly Passengers was established in 2015 to update ICAO Circular 288 (Guidance Material on the Legal Aspects of Unruly/Disruptive Passengers) to include a more detailed list of offences and other acts, as well as to make consequential changes to the Circular arising from the adoption of the Protocol.
The Task Force held its first meeting in September 2015. It established three drafting groups respectively led by Singapore, Kenya and Finland for different chapters in the new guidance material. The second meeting of the Task Force was held in Geneva from 30 to 31 March 2016, hosted by the International Air Transport Association (IATA). An ICAO-IATA legal seminar was held after the meeting to promote the Montréal Protocol of 2014.
