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ALG’s Hedrick Completes Speaking Tour In Australia
Robert Hedrick recently travelled down under to give a series of presentations to attorneys and law students in Australia. On May 9, 2014 he gave a presentation at the 33rd Annual Aviation Law Association of Australia and New Zealand in Melbourne, entitled Recent...
Robert F. Hedrick of Aviation Law Group speaks to Bloomberg on Malaysia Flight 370
On March 8, 2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, with 239 passengers and crew, disappeared. The still missing aircraft is now presumed to have crashed with no survivors. The press sought out answers to questions involving private international aviation liability, and...
2012 Pacific Northwest Aviation and Insurance Law Conference
I just returned from one of my favorite conferences of the year - the Pacific Northwest Aviation and Insurance Law Conference. During my second year of law school, I joined the King County Bar Association Aviation Section. It is populated by nice small group of...
China’s Shrinking Rice Bowl
China's Shrinking Rice Bowl 1 Casey DuBose, Seattle Journal of Environmental Law, Draft 2, 3 Mar. 2011 “Solving the problem of feeding around one billion people must be continually designated as a high priority in running the country well and maintaining...
China opens up General Aviation Test Airspace over Hainan – 海口飞行管制分区低空空域管理改革试飞活动
One of the biggest hurdles to the civil aviation in China has been the military's tight control on the airspace. The vast majority of delays for commercial aircraft are from the ATC. Commercial pilots expect a long wait to get their clearance to push back from the...
Chinese Airlines to Pay for Delays (in theory) – 航班延误赔偿”标准”
In 2004, the CAAC promulgated rules that mandate that airlines compensate passengers who are delayed for more than 4 hours. However, those rules, in 《航班延误经济补偿指导意见》, did not provide any details on the amount, means, or enforceability of that...