AVIATION

Firon Law Firm is one of the leading firms in Israel in the field of aviation law. The firm’s unique expertise, extensive activities, and broad professional know-how have enabled it to influence and shape the existing regulations in this sector in Israel.

Firon Law Firm provides legal solutions for all legal, commercial, business, and regulatory aspects of the operations of airlines. It also offers civil and administrative litigation services for a wide range of clients, including Israel’s largest airlines, individual pilots, the Israel Pilots Association, flight inspectors, and private pilots.

Comprehensive service includes support, representation, and negotiations for the purchase, sale, and lease of aircraft, representation of pilots (pilots and pilot inspectors) and airlines before the Civil Aviation Authority and the Chief Investigator, representation and defense in cases of safety incidents, administrative enforcement, advice regarding antitrust, aviation regulation, claims, commercial agreements, and more.

On the domestic scene, Firon Law Firm has led historic breakthroughs over the years that have changed the face of Israel’s skies, including establishing low-cost flight routes to various destinations worldwide, setting up helicopter medical services, and establishing an airlift system to and from drilling rig locations.

The department’s team is particularly proud of its contribution to shaping the central law in Israel that governs aviation (Aviation Law 2011) and its routine representation for all regulatory changes, such as changing operations and licensing standards in aviation. The firm has also initiated important legislative changes in the aviation sector. In addition, the firm is active in the international arena, including leading global agreements, activities with aviation authorities and foreign companies, activities with the ICAO, the International Pilots Association, routine handling of flight approvals, compliance with standards, and more.

The firm’s clients in the aviation sector benefit from a unique advantage in the professional handling and personal, dedicated involvement of one of the firm’s partners, who has shaped the face of aviation law in Israel. In addition, clients have full access to the extensive range of services of the firm’s other departments.