Former Civil Aviation Authority Chiefs
Nine retired directors-general from civil aviation authorities across Europe, the Gulf, and Asia-Pacific, with direct experience of licensing, slot coordination, and bilateral disputes.
Aviation Arbitration Chamber · Est. 2014
Where aviation disputes find their altitude — and a fair landing.
AVS Moot is a specialist arbitration chamber built around the industry's most credentialed panel of former regulators, airline general counsel, and ICAO-trained adjudicators. We deliver binding awards in a median of eleven weeks, against an eighteen-month industry baseline.
Confidential case review with a senior aviation adjudicator. No public docket. No retained conflict.
The Record
A case file, not a brochure.
Ten years of aviation dispute resolution, tabulated for general counsel who prefer evidence to adjectives.
- 11 weeks Median binding award, against an 18-month industry baseline.
- 1,820+ disputes Resolved across 38 jurisdictions since 2014.
- 94% enforcement Rate at the New York and Singapore Conventions.
- 97.2% on timetable Of cases closed within the original procedural calendar in 2024.
Average disputed value handled: USD 41 million. Largest single award: USD 1.1 billion (2022, lessor/lessee redelivery matter). 100% procedural compliance with the New York, Geneva, and Cape Town Conventions.
The Procedure
Four chapters. A predictable timetable you can put in front of a board.
Every matter proceeds on a documented procedural calendar. No ex parte choreography, no surprise extensions.
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Chapter I
Request for Arbitration
The claimant files a sealed Request. The Secretariat conducts a conflict screen across the panel within five business days and issues a procedural timetable with named milestones.
Days 1 – 5 -
Chapter II
Panel Constitution
Parties strike from a shortlist of five adjudicators. Each nominee signs an independence declaration citing prior representations across the prior ten years.
Days 6 – 18 -
Chapter III
Pleadings & Evidence Vault
Written submissions, technical exhibits, and maintenance records are lodged in the ISO 27001-certified digital vault with an ICAO Annex 19 audit trail. Bilingual English/Arabic administration.
Weeks 3 – 9 -
Chapter IV
Award
A reasoned, enforceable award is delivered. The tribunal may sit in Dublin, Singapore, or Riyadh. Median delivery: eleven weeks from filing.
Week 11 (median)
A measured argument
Why an aviation dispute belongs before aviation adjudicators.
Generalist arbitration forums were not built for the technical record of a commercial aviation dispute. They misunderstand maintenance-task cards, mishandle Annex 13 reports, and they routinely allow a lessor's redelivery claim to drift into a forensic-engineering seminar because no one on the bench has ever audited a C-check.
AVS Moot was founded in 2014 by three senior partners who previously led dispute resolution at IATA and Emirates Group. They had spent a decade watching airline GCs absorb six-figure expert fees because a tribunal asked the wrong question first. The chamber was built around the engineering and regulatory record, not retrofitted to it.
Our eighty-four specialists sit across legal, aviation engineering, and case administration. Our panel of forty-seven includes nine former civil aviation authority chiefs and six retired IATA counsel. Recognized as a recommended arbitral institution in the 2024 Chambers Aviation Litigation Guide. Named a 2023 Standout Arbitral Institution by The Air & Space Lawyer.
The point is not speed for its own sake. The point is that a specialist bench reaches the merits sooner, with fewer interlocutory skirmishes, and on a record that holds up at the enforcement stage.
I. Predictable Cost
A fee envelope the CFO can sign.
Our cost-ceiling program closes 92% of matters within the original fee estimate, with zero unbilled hours on 78% of cases. For disputes under USD 500,000, our Fast Track offers a fixed fee capped at fourteen days — the first such track in any aviation-specific chamber. There is no hourly billing by default; each matter is matched to a procedural track with a published ceiling.
Fees are structured per track, not as a one-size prospectus. The Secretariat issues a written fee envelope before the first procedural order, and the tribunal may not vary it without the parties' written consent.
Read the Fee ScheduleII. Award Durability
A paper award that travels.
An arbitral award is only as valuable as its enforceability in the losing party's jurisdiction. Our 94% enforcement rate at the New York and Singapore Conventions is the figure a general counsel should weigh against a cheaper headline fee elsewhere. The largest single award on our docket — USD 1.1 billion in a 2022 lessor/lessee redelivery matter — was recognised in three jurisdictions without a contested set-aside.
Our procedural record is reviewable: 100% compliance with the New York, Geneva, and Cape Town Conventions, and a digital evidence vault certified to ISO 27001 with ICAO Annex 19 audit-trail support. Bilingual case administration from hubs in Dublin, Singapore, and Riyadh.
On Enforcement