Broughton needn’t have been concerned. On Tuesday afternoon, the jury found for ATA–and awarded the airline all it asked for: $65.9 million in lost profits. Jurors also rejected a small counterclaim by FedEx. “It was all good,” Broughton told us.
ATA claimed in a June 2008 complaint that FedEx breached its contract with ATA to provide passenger and freight service to the U.S. military. (According to ATA counsel Broughton, military planes handle only about 10 percent of the military’s airline passenger and cargo business; civilian carriers fly the other 90 percent.)
