A reciprocal lawsuit scenarios is unfolding between Kenya Airways and its US aviation parts supplier Aero Industrial Supply (AIS) over alleged breaches of contract, APA can report from Nairobi on Friday.
Both parties filed lawsuits against each other over an apparently botched aircraft spare parts supply deal.
Both sides accused the other of breach of contract with claims north of $12 million, local media reports in Kenya suggest.
The AIS were the first to file a case against the airline in the US on June 2, claiming that Kenya Airways had defaulted in paying for the deliveries of aircraft parts and related supplies.
The company claimed unpaid deliveries are up to $1 million.
Kenya Airways retaliated with a lawsuit of its own at the High Court in Nairobi, alleging that AIS was in breach of an agreement reached in 2016 after the US company allgedly sold off the airline’s surplus aircraft components.
The carrier accused AIS of not accounting for consigned parts and unreturned proceeds from sales or unsold inventory.
Kenya Airways is claiming $11.84 million from AIS if accounting for the full inventory of the parts and sales handled under the agreement cannot be made.
Both cases are pending in the Kenyan and US courts and no daes have been announced for their hearings.
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