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January Jurisdictional Update – Philippines

Update provided by Kerwin Tan of Tan Hassani and Counsels: The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines recently released a 357-page updated Guidance Material for Single Pilot Operations under the Philippine Civil Aviation Regulations. This Guidance Material affects all approved training organizations (aka flying schools). To implement this Guidance Material, CAAP will provide flying schools […]

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December Jurisdictional Update – South Africa

Update provided by Hayden Davies with Webber Wentzel: Airlines are experiencing high levels of limited capacity for domestic flights due to COVID-related failures, resulting in higher fares. Hopefully, this will even out by next year.  

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December Jurisdictional Update – The Bahamas

Update provided by Keith O. Major, Jr. with Higgs & Johnson: The Bahamas government is developing nine airports throughout the Archipelago in a public-private partnership. They have issued requests for proposals for international partners for the development where The Bahamas will own the land, and the partners will operate and manage the airport operations.  

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December Jurisdictional Update – India

Update provided by Ramesh Vaidyanathan with Advaya Legal:   Operations are increasing, and consolidation is occurring, resulting in lower fares and better connectivity for passengers. The new airline Akasa Air started operations, the privatization of Air India is continuing to take shape, and Air India and Vistara are merging.  A new regulatory change allows wide-bodied aircraft […]

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December Jurisdictional Update – Malta

Update provided by Matthew Xerri with Ganado Advocates: Wizz Air is a new airline in Malta. They will register over 100 aircraft. There has also been movement with registering other operators in Malta, such as Eurowings, a subsidiary of Lufthansa.  

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November Jurisdictional Update – Philippines

Overtime Pay of Airport Personnel is not Chargeable to Private Airlines and Private Entities, ruled the high court in the Philippines. In the case of Bureau of Customs Employees Association vs. Hon. Rozzano Rufino B. Biazon (in his capacity as Commissioner, Bureau of Customs) et. al. (2022), two issues were put before the Court. First, […]

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November Jurisdictional Updates – South Africa

Updated provided by Haydn Davies with Webber Wentzel: Ground handling licenses have been reduced from three to two at the primary state-owned South African airports because of reduced air traffic. However, Swissport will be in court on Monday or Tuesday to litigate this, saying the tender was not properly adjudicated. This will be some of […]

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November Jurisdictional Update – Uruguay

Update provided by Gonzalo Yelpo with Yelpo & Facal: The jurisdictional update concerns the handling of cargo claims. The issue arose when an insurance company was making a claim on behalf of its client. In the legend, with the declared value of the cargo, there was a statement that said “Max Free”. The claimant was […]

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November Jurisdictional Updates – United States – Miami

Update provided by Andrea Villa with Harper Meyer: Foreign-operated aircraft are required to have Letters of Authorization (LOA) to fly overseas. LOAs allow aircraft to conduct different operations, such as flying in RVSM airspace, doing certain approaches, working with the minimum equipment list, etc. The FAA’s backlog of work severely impacts obtaining letters of authorization […]

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November Jurisdictional Updates – Philippines

Update Provided by Kerwin K. Tan & Eugene T. Kaw with Tan Hassani & Counsels The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) recently organized and hosted its inaugural Air Operators Summit 2022 with the theme Transitioning to Risk-Based Oversight. The mandate of the Flight Standard and Inspectorate Service (FSIS), a department within CAAP, is […]

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