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A Malaysian court has dismissed a bid by Malaysia Airlines to throw out a suit filed by relatives of 3 passengers who went missing on flight MH370, opening the way for other relatives to sue the airline. More than 50 suits have been filed in the Malaysian courts over the plane's disappearance, while others have been filed in the US, Australia, and China. The Kuala Lumpur High Court ruling is likely to come as a relief for relatives, many of whom had feared they would not be able to get compensation from MAS after it transferred all its assets and operations to MAB in a restructuring exercise last year. MAB had argued that it had no liability as it was set up 8 months after the aircraft disappeared. But the court did not accept that, instead ruling that MAB's liability would be determined in a trial. <br/>

Three of the 4 US airlines serving Tokyo’s Haneda Airport, including American Airlines, want to keep flying their current routes to the Japanese capital’s close-in airport when daytime slots become available later this year. And they don’t think they should have to reapply to do so, according to filings with the DoT Tuesday. Delta Air Lines was the only one of the 4 US carriers not to file an objection to the DoT’s proposed process for allocating coveted slots at Haneda, which calls for wiping the current slate clean and instituting a new round of bidding. In its filing, American, which recently launched Los Angeles to Haneda service, called the decision to open all existing slots to a bidding process “arbitrary and capricious and contrary to law,” suggesting that it goes against precedent established in prior DoT route proceedings. <br/>