by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 2, 2023 | International News, Non-Life
Lessors are suing dozens of insurers around the world for billions of dollars after more than 400 planes were unable to leave Russia due to Western sanctions in response to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine that forced the termination of their leases Some of the world’s...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 8, 2022 | International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance
Over 400 leased planes worth almost $10 billion remained in Russia after a March 28 deadline to cancel the contracts in line with Western sanctions over the war in Ukraine, leaving lessors facing heavy potential writedowns or a long insurance battle The likely huge...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 29, 2022 | International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance
“I’m afraid that we are going to witness the largest sort of theft of aircraft in the history of commercial civil aviation,” said Volodymyr Bilotkach, an associate professor of air transport management at Singapore Institute of Technology. Although the planes are...