News & Media 22nd May 2021

Airlines, passengers, crew face the heat for COVID-19 cases, legal eagles divided on blame/liability

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Dinesh PednekarPartner | Mumbai

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Air India, Vistara and other Indian airlines have suffered after authorities in Italy and Hong Kong found COVID-19 cases among passengers or crew that landed. Lawyers have strong opinions of whether the fault lies with the airline, passengers or the airport from where the flight took off.

Against this background, Economic Laws Practice (ELP)’s Dinesh Pednekar, Partner, Rajashree Ram, Principal Associate and Aafreen Noor, Associate have been extensively quoted in the article – ‘Airlines, passengers, crew face the heat for COVID-19 cases, legal eagles divided on blame/liability’ authored by Ashwini Phadnis in moneycontrol.com.

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