International and domestic carriage of passengers and goods by air - Domestic carriage by air
277: Limitation of liability
You could also call this:
"Airlines are responsible for damage from delays, but their payment is limited to a certain amount."
If you are on a plane and your flight is delayed, the airline is responsible for the damage this causes you. The airline's responsibility is limited to the lesser of two amounts: the amount of damage you can prove happened because of the delay, or an amount that is 10 times what you paid for your ticket.
You can think of the amount you paid for your ticket as the cost of your carriage.
The airline can choose to take on more responsibility by making a special contract with you.
If the airline does make a special contract with you, they can increase the amount they are responsible for.
This means they can choose to pay more than the limited amount if they want to.
The airline makes this choice when they make the special contract.
The rules about how much damage is too remote, or far away, from the delay are not changed by this law.
You can find more information about this by looking at other laws.
For example, you can compare this to section 91ZC of a previous law.