Lawsuit

Aviation attorneys at the Chicago-based law firm Clifford Law Offices have filed pre-case claims against the FAA and Army.

A final report by the National Transportation Safety Board has found that a United first officer was responsible for a “hard landing” nearly two years ago.

A federal jury ordered SkyWest Airlines to pay $300,000 to a former employee who was the target of continued sexual harassment in a verdict on Wednesday.

Three Frontier passengers are suing the carrier saying they were traumatized and injured after an emergency landing on Oct. 5.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed a federal lawsuit against United, alleging that a supervisor called a Mongolian employee a racial slur.

Attorneys representing former SkyWest flight attendants filed an answer on Tuesday denying the SkyWest Inflight Association’s counterclaim.

A Texas-based company sued Mexicana for at least $841 million, claiming breaches of contract hampered the airline’s launch.

Four more passengers aboard Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 are suing the air carrier along with Boeing for allegedly endangering them.

On Wednesday, Flair Airlines — the trending Canadian ultra low-cost carrier — announced that it would be filing a $50 million CAD ($36.4 million) lawsuit against a lessor that claimed the carrier had failed to make payments on one of its aircraft last week.  The lawsuit against Airborne Air Capital — an Ireland-based lessor — was filed […]

After the Mexican low-cost carrier (LCC) Interjet announced that it will not be operating any flights from Dec. 18, the bad news keeps coming for the airline. As announced, Interjet doesn’t have the funds to pay for jet fuel and its employees are now owed over three months of unpaid wages and benefits. At present, […]