Airbus and Qatar Airways Settle Bitter Dispute Over Grounded A350 Jets February 3, 2023 By Tim Hepher Airbus and Qatar Airways have settled a dispute over grounded A350 jets, the companies said on Wednesday, averting a potentially...
Airbus and Qatar Airways Return to Court Over Ongoing Contractual, Safety Dispute October 14, 2022 By Tim Hepher Airbus and Qatar Airways return to court on Friday as a contractual and safety dispute over A350 passenger jets descends...
Air France, Airbus Execs Plead Not Guilty to Involuntary Manslaughter for 2009 Crash October 11, 2022 By Tim Hepher and Yiming Woo A French criminal court opened the historic manslaughter trial of Air France and planemaker Airbus on Monday, with angry relatives...
Aircraft Lessors Begin ‘Vigorous’ Pursuit of Insurance Claims for Seized Jets in Russia May 11, 2022 By Padraic Halpin, Conor Humphries and Tim Hepher Lessors with hundreds of jets stuck in Russia are preparing for what one said would be a “vigorous” pursuit of...
Qatar Airways Suffers UK Court Setback in Feud With Airbus April 27, 2022 By Tim Hepher LONDON – A British judge on Tuesday denied a bid by Qatar Airways to reinstate a jet contract canceled by...
Airbus, Qatar Airways’ Dispute Over Billions of Dollars of Jets Enters UK Court April 7, 2022 By Tim Hepher Airbus and Qatar Airways are set to face each other in court as a dispute over billions of dollars of...
Russian Airlines Could Be Frozen Out of Aircraft Leasing Market After Ukraine War March 29, 2022 By Tim Hepher Russian airlines could be frozen out of the aircraft leasing market well beyond the Ukraine conflict, one of the industry’s...
Aircraft Lessors Face Legal Quagmire on Russia Jet Repos. Will Insurers Provide Relief? March 11, 2022 By Tim Hepher, Engen Tham and Carolyn Cohn Global leasing companies staring at an imminent sanctions deadline to repossess more than 400 jets worth almost $10 billion from...
Update: Ukraine Closes Airspace to Civilian Flights as Russian Military Action Begins February 24, 2022 By Jamie Freed and Tim Hepher Ukraine closed its airspace to civilian flights on Thursday after Russia launched a land, sea and air invasion of its...
Qatar Airways Seeks More Than $600M in Dispute Over Airbus A350’s Surface Flaws January 7, 2022 By Tim Hepher and Guy Faulconbridge Qatar Airways is seeking more than $600 million in compensation from Airbus over surface flaws on A350 jetliners, according to...