http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: Air France-KLM Group Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/135200 Airlines may have to compensate passengers in the European Union for flights that are delayed more than three hours, according to the EU's highest court. http://www.law360.com/articles/135200 http://www.law360.com/articles/130921 Thai Airways International Public Co. Ltd. has become the latest airline to get hit with a lawsuit by Australia's competition regulator as part of a long-running investigation into cartel activity in the international air cargo industry. http://www.law360.com/articles/130921 http://www.law360.com/articles/130461 European competition regulators reportedly have told British Airways PLC, American Airlines Inc. and Iberia Group that they may have to give up important takeoff and landing slots in order to gain antitrust immunity for their plans for a trans-Atlantic alliance. http://www.law360.com/articles/130461 http://www.law360.com/articles/130507 A federal judge has dismissed a putative class action brought by an American who accused four foreign airlines, including Deutsche Lufthansa AG and Air France, of conspiring to fix the price of air travel between Europe and Japan. http://www.law360.com/articles/130507 http://www.law360.com/articles/129384 Airbus SAS and several suppliers have been hit with a lawsuit by the relatives of eight victims of Air France Flight 447, which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in June on its way from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, killing all 228 people on board. http://www.law360.com/articles/129384 http://www.law360.com/articles/129276 The union representing US Airways pilots has joined a chorus of voices criticizing Oneworld Alliance's application for an antitrust exemption, saying it could compromise U.S. jobs. http://www.law360.com/articles/129276 http://www.law360.com/articles/127847 Airline unions have joined the growing list of critics of proposals by the industry's Oneworld alliance for antitrust exemption and are calling for more general oversight when it comes to competition within the industry. http://www.law360.com/articles/127847 http://www.law360.com/articles/125995 The European Commission has notified certain members of the Oneworld airline alliance that their proposed collaboration on transatlantic passenger air transport services could be considered a breach of European Union rules on restrictive business practices. http://www.law360.com/articles/125995 http://www.law360.com/articles/126017 Singapore Airlines Pte Ltd. has lost a second attempt to contest the validity of Australian Competition and Consumer Commission notices demanding documents related to its ongoing probe of cartel activity in the air cargo industry, according to the agency. http://www.law360.com/articles/126017 http://www.law360.com/articles/120257 PT Garuda Indonesia Ltd. has become the latest airline to be hit with a lawsuit by Australia's competition regulator as part of a long-running probe into cartel activity in the international air cargo industry. http://www.law360.com/articles/120257 http://www.law360.com/articles/118128 Citing Twombly, a federal judge overseeing multidistrict antitrust litigation against a group of major airlines has kept alive the action's Sherman Act claims despite a magistrate judge's recommendation that they be tossed, saying the plaintiffs established plausible grounds to allege an agreement among the carriers to fix air cargo prices. http://www.law360.com/articles/118128 http://www.law360.com/articles/117883 France's competition regulator has warned the French units of energy giants Total SA, Royal Dutch Shell PLC and UGI Corp. of concerns about anti-competitive activity in the nation's propane gas market. http://www.law360.com/articles/117883 http://www.law360.com/articles/117223 Emirates has become the latest airline to face a lawsuit by Australia's competition regulator as part of an ongoing investigation into cartel activity in the international air cargo industry. http://www.law360.com/articles/117223 http://www.law360.com/articles/116440 The head of long-haul airline Virgin Atlantic has asked President Barack Obama and political leaders to reject an antitrust immunity application from some of the airline's main competitors. http://www.law360.com/articles/116440 http://www.law360.com/articles/115271 British Airways, Air France, China Airlines Ltd. and several other major airlines have been added as defendants to a passenger air transportation antitrust action alleging a global conspiracy to fix prices on long-haul trans-Pacific flights, effectively doubling the number of companies currently implicated in the massive multidistrict litigation. http://www.law360.com/articles/115271 http://www.law360.com/articles/110046 Canada's Competition Bureau has secured a fourth guilty plea stemming from its investigation into an air cargo price-fixing scheme, with Qantas Airways Ltd. admitting to fixing surcharges on air cargo on certain routes from Canada. http://www.law360.com/articles/110046 http://www.law360.com/articles/109148 As part of a strategy to expand its presence in the European market, Hunton & Williams LLP has added a new partner to its global competition practice who joins the firm's Brussels office from Linklaters LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/109148 http://www.law360.com/articles/105123 Air France will likely be liable to the families for full damages in the crash of Flight 447. But the burden of proof in an aviation products liability case rests with the claimant — and just as in any products case, a lack of physical evidence usually works in favor of the manufacturer and against the victims, says plaintiffs' aviation attorney Mike Danko. http://www.law360.com/articles/105123 http://www.law360.com/articles/99337 Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. has become the latest airline targeted in a lawsuit by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission as part of an ongoing probe into cartel activity in the air cargo industry. http://www.law360.com/articles/99337 http://www.law360.com/articles/99171 A former vice president at Martinair Holland NV has become the fourth executive to accept a plea deal in the U.S. Department of Justice's investigation into a price-fixing conspiracy for international air cargo rates that has already led to guilty pleas or settlements from 15 airlines and more than $1.6 billion in fines. http://www.law360.com/articles/99171