15 May 2019
Electric propulsion of aircraft: market update
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2019/global/electric-propulsion-of-aircraft-market-update

Electric propulsion of aircraft is a growing phenomenon in a sector subject to mounting scrutiny with regard to its environmental impact. Here, our Aviation team looks at some of the political, industrial and regulatory ...

11 September 2018
UK guidance for businesses on the Package Travel Directive implementing regulations – much needed clarity or do ambiguities remain?
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2018/uk/uk-guidance-for-businesses-on-the-package-travel-directive-implementing-regulations

Over the summer the UK's Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) published guidance for businesses on the domestic regulations that implement the new Package Travel Directive – the Package Travel ...

17 September 2018
CORSIA - A global market-based measure to offset growth in aviation emissions
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2018/global/corsia-global-market-based-measure-to-offset-growth-in-aviation-emissions

A brief summary of the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation, CORSIA, and what airlines should be ready for in 2019

24 October 2018
Wet leases and codeshares: more certainty in Germany, but less in the ECJ, in Regulation 261 treatment of contracting and actual carriers
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2018/global/wet-leases-and-codeshares

In our article on 23 July 2018 on the Advocate-General's opinion in flightright –v- Iberia and the ECJ decision in Wirth –v- Thomson we noted the different treatment of Regulation 261 claims arising from carriage on ...

06 April 2020
Business contracts and COVID-19: seven topics, five surprises
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2020/global/business-contracts-and-covid-19-seven-topics-five-surprises

Partner Andrew White summarises seven key issues regarding commercial contracts and COVID-19, and shares five surprises – points which may not be familiar even to those immersed in the subject.

09 February 2018
CMA provisionally declares Fox/Sky deal to be against the public interest due to media plurality concerns, but does this spell the end of the acquisition?
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2018/uk/cma-provisionally-declares-fox-sky-deal-to-be-against-the-public-interest

On 23 January, the UK's Competition and Markets Authority ("CMA") provisionally found that the proposed takeover of Sky plc by 21st Century Fox would not be in the public interest due to media plurality concerns.

12 September 2018
British Airways: the need to find blame
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2018/uk/ba-the-need-to-find-blame

BA's confirmation last week that hackers had accessed customer data by breaching its website and mobile app security has brought a host of unwelcome media attention on the airline and set off a flurry of pointing ...

22 July 2020
Bird & Bird partners with LexisNexis and the UK Drone Association to provide legal guidance and precedents for the Drone Operator market in England and Wales
www.twobirds.com/en/news/press-releases/2020/united-kingdom/bird-and-bird-partners-with-lexisnexis-and-the-uk-drone-association

International law firm Bird & Bird has partnered with LexisNexis, a leading global provider of information and analytics as well as ARPAS, the UK Drone Association, to create what is believed to be the first published ...

25 July 2019
Choice of jurisdiction for passenger claims under Regulation 261: Brussels Recast and the Montreal Convention? Advocate General's opinion
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2019/global/choice-of-jurisdiction-for-passenger-claims-under-regulation-261

Simon Phippard and Sandra Nicolle take a look at a recent passenger rights case and the questions it raises around extraordinary circumstances and how jurisdiction is determined.

22 November 2019
Case notes: Landmark ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on validity of airport charges
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2019/global/case-notes-landmark-ruling-of-the-court-of-justice-of-the-european-union

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has rendered a landmark decision ruling that airports must not agree with individual airport users preferential airport charges different from those approved by the ...