I took American Airlines to Court twice in Trinidad and each time they hired an Attorney from Trinidad to represent them and not their in-house lawyers. So it is perfectly reasonable for an Airline to retain outside lawyers if it is a city where they do not have inhouse lawyers. BTW they settled in full once they saw the proceedings filed and on the first date of hearing it was just a matter of entering an Order by consent.
I gather that the only question here is one of quantum of damage and not the question of liability.
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