How the Covid-19 crisis affects the aviation industry

Welcome to our new podcast and thank you for tuning in to our discussion today. This episode features a discussion between Oleksiy Burchevskyy, the head of the aviation sector at Kinstellar and aviation law specialists Isabelle Lelieur, Thierry Mazoyer, both Partners at Chevrier Avocats, a French boutique law firm specializing in the aviation sector, and Vincent Morand, a senior consultant with DFDL, an integrated international law firm with offices across Southeast Asia. Today’s talk explores how the Covid crisis affects the aviation industry, in particular how airports are surviving the crisis, how lessors handle aircraft leases and repossessions and how airlines policies towards passenger refunds.