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Nashville Airport Plans to Spend $1.4 Billion on Expansion

Jun 14 2022 // Nashville International Airport officials have announced a plan for $1.4 billion in improvements by late 2028. A news release from the airport says the projects will include extensions and improvements for two concourse, a...

U.S. Supreme Court Rules Southwest Airlines Cannot Force Wage Suit Into Arbitration

Jun 7 2022 // Southwest Airlines Co. cannot force a baggage handler’s class action lawsuit over overtime pay into private arbitration, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday in a decision with costly potential implications for...

Texas Jury: American Airlines Not at Fault in Alleged Assault of Flight Attendant

May 18 2022 // Jurors in a civil lawsuit decided last week that American Airlines did not bear responsibility for an alleged sexual assault against a flight attendant by a celebrity chef who was hired by the airline as an independent...

Probe Into China Eastern Airlines’ Crash Examines Actions of Crew

May 18 2022 // Investigators looking into the crash of a China Eastern Airlines jet are examining the actions of the crew on the flight deck, with no evidence found of a technical malfunction, two people briefed on the matter said.In...

Russia’s Aeroflot Buys 8 Stranded Airbus A330 Aircraft From Leasing Firms

May 16 2022 // Russia’s biggest airline, Aeroflot, said on Friday it had bought eight Airbus A330 aircraft from foreign leasing companies “as part of the fulfillment of contractual obligations.”More than 400 aircraft...

U.S. FAA Finds Boeing 787 Certification Documents Incomplete: Sources

May 16 2022 // U.S. air-safety regulators have told Boeing Co. the documentation it submitted to win approval to resume 787 deliveries to airlines after a year is incomplete, two people familiar with the matter said.The U.S. Federal...

Aircraft Lessors Begin ‘Vigorous’ Pursuit of Insurance Claims for Seized Jets in Russia

May 11 2022 // Lessors with hundreds of jets stuck in Russia are preparing for what one said would be a “vigorous” pursuit of insurance claims while maintaining discreet contact with some customers after Moscow blocked the...

Dubai Aerospace Files Insurance Claims of $1B for Aircraft Stranded in Russia

May 6 2022 // The Middle East’s biggest plane-leasing firm wrote off half-a-billion dollars for aircraft stranded in Russia, after the Kremlin issued a law preventing foreign-owned jets from leaving the country without state...

EU Regulator Warns of Increased Risk to Airlines as Result of Ukraine War

May 5 2022 // The European Union’s Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) regulator warned on Thursday of increased risks to airlines due to the war in Ukraine, such as civil planes being accidentally targeted as well as an increased risk...

People Moves: Lim Promoted to CEO, Howden Singapore; Liberty Specialty Mkts. Hires Lim for Aviation Claims; OdysseyRe Taps Everest’s Finnegan for U.S. General Casualty

May 4 2022 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Howden Singapore, Liberty Specialty Markets and OdysseyRe.A summary of these new hires follows here. Lim Promoted to CEO of Howden SingaporeHowden, the...

Lessor Avolon Reports $304M Impairment Over Seized Russian Aircraft

May 4 2022 // Major aircraft lessor Avolon recorded a first-quarter impairment of $304 million to cover the full financial impact of having 10 jets still stuck in Russia following European Union sanctions that forced the termination of...

Qatar Airways Suffers UK Court Setback in Feud With Airbus

Apr 27 2022 // LONDON – A British judge on Tuesday denied a bid by Qatar Airways to reinstate a jet contract canceled by Europe’s Airbus in the latest twist to a dramatic feud playing out in UK courts.The companies have been...

U.S. Will No Longer Enforce Mask Mandate on Airplanes, Trains After Court Ruling

Apr 19 2022 // The Biden administration will no longer enforce a U.S. mask mandate on public transportation, after a federal judge in Florida on Monday ruled that the 14-month-old directive was unlawful, overturning a key White House...

Delta Airlines Ends Surcharge on Unvaccinated Workers

Apr 19 2022 // Delta Air Lines has dropped a $200 per month surcharge that it had been levying against unvaccinated employees who were on the company’s health plan.“We have dropped as of this month the additional insurance...

Flight Attendants Settle Discrimination Suit with Colorado-based Frontier

Apr 18 2022 // Frontier Airlines has settled a discrimination lawsuit brought by a group of flight attendants who claimed the carrier discriminated against them during pregnancy and while breastfeeding.Denver-based Frontier agreed to...

EU’s Tweak to Sanctions Allows Some Aircraft Lessors to Sell Stranded Jets to Russia

Apr 15 2022 // An amendment to European Union sanctions last week created a potential path for some aircraft financiers to sell jets held in Russia to the airlines now operating them without permission.The measure, published April 8,...

DHL Operated Boeing Jet Breaks in Two After Skidding Off Runway

Apr 11 2022 // A Boeing Co. 757 cargo jet operated by DHL broke in two after skidding off the runway at Juan Santamaria International airport in Costa Rica.The crew reported hydraulic problems with the 22-year-old aircraft after takeoff...

Small Plane Crash Kills 2 in Central Texas; FAA, NTSB to Investigate

Apr 8 2022 // Two people were killed April 5 when the small plane they were flying in crashed near a Central Texas airport, officials said.Those aboard the single-engine Cessna TU206H were a man and a woman, according to the Texas...

Qatar Airways Says It Wasn’t Obliged to Accept Deliveries of Flawed Jets From Airbus

Apr 8 2022 // Qatar Airways said it wasn’t obliged to accept deliveries of Airbus SE A350 jetliners until an issue with surface paint is fixed, accusing the European planemaker of lowering its standards to minimize the problem.In...

Aircraft Lessors Seeing ‘Horrendous’ Hikes in Insurance Premiums: BOC Aviation

Apr 7 2022 // The likely huge insurance claims related to the cancellation of aircraft leases in Russia is already leading to “horrendous” hikes in the cost of renewing policies, the chief executive of major lessor BOC...