Airline, Airport, or Aviation Injury

Airline Injury.

If you were hurt while traveling, you need an attorney who worked inside the airlines to maximize the value of your case.

Ace for your Airline Case.

For over 18 years, attorney Mahmoud Khatib worked for major airlines including Delta and Northwest. Mahmoud wrote and negotiated contracts worth billions of dollars — encompassing over 200 airports across the country — for various services with airline handling companies including Unifi, Prospect, ERMC, Menzies, G2, Eulen, PrimeFlight, GAT, ABM, Huntleigh, Swissport, and more. While there are many personal injury attorneys in Atlanta, only Mahmoud comes with the experience of an airline insider.

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INJURY CASES WE HANDLE

Airlines. Airports. General Aviation.

With an airline career of over 18 years, on-the-ground experience managing airline suppliers at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL), and as a pilot since 2001, attorney Mahmoud Khatib knows aviation.

Airline Injuries

Whether you were injured by an airline or an airline contractor, we can help. During Mahmoud’s long airline career, he wrote the contracts airlines use for ramp handling, cargo, cabin cleaning, aircraft deicing, airport busses, skycap, security screening, K-9 screening, unaccompanied minor escorts, and wheelchair services for airline passengers.
Airport Injuries

Airports can be chaotic and dangerous. If you are hurt by an airport bus, train, escalator, elevator, bag carrousel, X-ray machine, K-9, service dog, or anything else, we can help. Mahmoud has unique insight into airport environments because he worked at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) during his airline career.
General Aviation

We handle injuries all across general aviation: Private charters (FAR Part 135), private carriage and fractional ownership (FAR Part 91), training and instructing, pipeline patrol, aerial photography, aerial surveying, crop dusting, banner towing, skydiving, aerial tours, and more. Mahmoud lives and breathes general aviation. He received his pilot’s license while still in high school and he has been flying ever since.

Attorney Mahmoud Khatib, in a wool overcoat, smiles on an airport tarmac with a large airline jet behind him and airport vehicles in the background.

Your Lawyer.

Your Airline Insider.

Experience matters - and inside experience in the complex airline industry is a major advantage. There is no better attorney than Mahmoud Khatib to help you win your airline, airport, or general aviation injury case.

Contingency Fee.

Mahmoud is so confident he can help you win that he puts his money on the line and takes all airline, airport, and aviation injury cases on a contingency fee basis. Generally, the contingency fee is 33% of the gross recovery if the case is settled before a suit is filed, or 40% of the gross recovery if the case is settled after a suit is filed. That means you pay us nothing upfront, and we don’t get paid unless we get you paid.

A cartoon scene at an airport shows a flying dog holding a wheelchair-woman's hand as they descend an escalator. The woman is in a wheelchair and smiling. In the second part, she has fallen to the ground at the bottom of the escalator, crying and looking distressed. Signage indicates directions for gates, restrooms, and baggage claim.

Airport Wheelchair Injuries.

Airlines often use suppliers with the lowest-paid workers at the airport to handle the most vulnerable passengers, including disabled passengers and unaccompanied minors. Airlines do this to try to shield themselves from liability and to cut costs. Some of these wheelchair pushers have minimal training or no training at all. When passengers inevitably get hurt, airlines try to minimize complaints to the DOT (Department of Transportation) by directing passengers to submit complaints to the airline. If you or a loved one are injured at the airport, you need a lawyer who knows your rights and knows the airline industry.

A police officer talking to an elderly woman in a wheelchair, exchanging money in a parking garage.

We Know Wheelchairs.

Mahmoud knows all about wheelchairs in the airline industry - he negotiated these contracts for nearly two decades. He even spent a year managing these suppliers at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL). Mahmoud knows that airlines have internal data which tracks wheelchair agents and each interaction they had with passengers. He knows about policies and regulations concerning maximum wait times for wheelchairs, unattended passengers, tip solicitation, and more. No other personal injury attorney has the unique airline experience of Mahmoud.