Unprecedented Challenges Faced by Airports and Their Airline "Customers"

Partner David T. Ralston is speaking at the ABA’s Forum on Air and Space Law – 2009 Update Conference: Uncertain Times for an Uneasy Industry, January 28, 2009 in Washington, D.C. 

Panelists include:

Moderator:

• Nancy Kessler
  Senior Attorney, Office of the General Counsel,
  U.S. Department of Transportation

Panelists:

• Robert W. Kneisley
  Associate General Counsel, Southwest Airlines
  
• Maria Zulick Nucci
  Property Administrator, Reno, Nevada
  
• David T. Ralston, Jr.
  Partner, Foley & Lardner LLP
  Past Chair of the Board of the Metropolitan
  Washington Airports Authority
  
• Philip Sunderland
  Vice-President and General Counsel,
  Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority
  
• John Schmidt
  Partner, Mayer Brown LLP

Their session, Unprecedented Challenges Faced by Airports and their Airline “Customers” will address  the many issues that arise from the unprecedented challenges facing airports, airlines, shippers and security contractors. Topics will include airport finances, fee negotiations, privatization, transit-related enterprises and security.