High Crimes and Misdemeanors: Federal Criminal Aviation Cases From 2021
Meritas Capability Webinar - Restructuring Insolvent Airlines in the Americas: A Look at LATAM and Developments with AeroMexico and Avianca
WEBINAR: The ABCs of Pilot Deviations
The 2025 Airline Economics Conference in Dublin highlighted several key trends and challenges currently shaping the aviation industry, with a particular focus on the leasing sector, sustainability, profitability, and...more
In this month’s update, we discuss Russian-seized planes, Starbucks-caused traffic jams, a squabble over the use of a family name, a restaurant’s pandemic-based loss, a poorly built house, and whether insurance covers any of...more
Global air travel traffic (measured in revenue per kilometers (RPKs)) begins 2024 in line with pre-COVID highs. Certain markets, such as US domestic and intra-European have already surpassed pre-COVID levels and despite some...more
Aircraft leasing companies are the backbone of modern commercial aviation. Lessors now account for an estimated 60 percent of new passenger jet deliveries, up from approximately 45 percent on the eve of the pandemic and just...more
The bankruptcy Pegasus: stalking horse agreements in aviation - The Covid-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the aviation industry, with regular international travel being halted for prolonged periods since March...more
AVIATION REGULATORY AND POLICY - Aviation Policy: European Commission Proposals Regarding the Transformation of EU Economy and Society to Meet Climate Ambitions - On 14 July 2021, the European Commission (Commission) adopted...more
In a decision handed down at the end of April, the Commercial Court, in Wilmington Trust SP Services (Dublin) Ltd and others v Spicejet Ltd [2021], has provided guidance on the English law doctrines of illegality and...more
The latest and greatest from Fed Chair Powell as the Fed’s March Open Markets Committee meeting wrapped yesterday, including a markets-pleasing assurance that better-than-expected economic growth wasn’t enough to push the...more
Like the rest of the world, air passenger transport in the Russian Federation and other Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries experienced a serious impact at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet air traffic...more
For several years, until May 2019, the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) lacked sufficient directors to field a quorum for approval of any new commitments for transactions other than to approve short-term...more
The FAA has once again given Boeing the green light to send its troubled 737 Max models into the sky, “20 months after it was grounded following two fatal crashes blamed on faulty software and a host of company and government...more
The European Union has unveiled a new antitrust probe and accompanying charges against Amazon over alleged the “use of non-public business data from independent sellers on its marketplace that could benefit the company’s own...more
In Washington: The Trump administration will pay Eli Lilly $375 million to supply 300,000 doses of its experimental antibody drug to treat COVID-19, the Department of Health and Human Services said Wednesday. If the Food and...more
In Washington: President Trump left Walter Reed Medical Center Monday evening despite his personal doctor, Sean Conley, saying he “may not be entirely out of the woods yet.” In a memo on Tuesday, his doctor said the...more
Blaming a “U.S. move to impose tariffs on French goods,” luxury brand conglomerate LMVH is pulling out of a proposed $16 billion deal to buy jeweler Tiffany & Co. Tiffany is now suing to enforce the ill-fated agreement....more
Many people are aware of the old common law concept known as the “mailbox rule,” whereby placing a document in the mail is considered under certain circumstances as tantamount to delivering or filing the document under...more
It’s time to face up to the fact that financial market participants will soon no longer be able to rely on LIBOR. No one can claim that this comes as a surprise. In 2014, in response to concerns about the reliability and...more
In Washington - COVID-19 has forced lawmakers to think outside the box in how they work remotely during the crisis. Over 50 Democrats have signaled they plan to use proxy voting to cast a vote on the floor....more
Key Takeaways: - Demand for private air travel may experience an increase as travel restrictions and stay-at-home orders ease in the coming months. - Record lows in the price of jet fuel and an overstock of airplane...more
Covid-19 is an unprecedented health and economic crisis, and it is still unclear how and when the aviation industry will begin to recover. Global government aid to the aviation sector has been inconsistent, with varied levels...more
As part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), the 7.5 percent air transportation federal excise tax (FET) that applies to commercial operations, including charter flights conducted under Part...more
On March 12, 2020, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a Safety Alert for Operators (SAFO 20003) that provides interim health guidance for Air Carriers and Crew Members regarding COVID-19. ...more
Joining with those attempting to slow the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) and to minimize exposure for Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) employees, FAA Public Document Room (PDR) permit holders, families, and the...more
Since its discovery in December 2019, the novel coronavirus that causes the disease COVID-19 has disrupted global business activity and public life on a massive and growing scale. And no one knows how long these disruptions...more
It’s been a week or so, and we’re running out of ways to say that this is bad. But it certainly is. Your bear market stats for the day: the biggest daily drop by percentage for both the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial...more