Tighter laws for unruly fliers

Geneva: Unruly air travellers getting away lightly could soon be a thing of the past.
The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) is organising an international conference on Air Law in March 2014, where it will look into certain loopholes in the existing laws, which allow unruly passengers to continue with their errant ways.
Currently, the 1963 Tokyo Convention, which was largely the outcome of concerns over the growing number of hijackings, governs unruly passengers, who are described as passengers who fail to respect the rules of conduct on board an aircraft or do not follow the instructions of crew members and thereby disturb the good order and discipline onboard an aircraft.
The Tokyo Convention is seen to be weak on two major issues — jurisdiction and immunity standards, which allow most unruly passengers to get away scot free.
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