Commercial aviation is one of the most tightly regulated industries on Earth. Every flight level, navigation procedure, maintenance interval, and crew certification requirement is governed by an intricate network of international agreements and national regulations. Every day, thousands of jet airliners cruise across the Atlantic at 35,000 feet inside a legal framework that contains a remarkable contradiction: no one has ever fully agreed where sovereign airspace actually ends.
That creates a strange reality for modern aviation. A Boeing 777 crossing the North Atlantic or an Airbus A350 flying between Europe and Asia operates in a zone where international law becomes surprisingly vague. The deeper one looks into aviation law, the clearer it becomes that some of the…
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