Florida complaint centers on alleged transaction-period communications and omissions involving Boeing 737-800 MSN 29636 and a parallel AirExplore placement process
MIAMI, Florida / YEREVAN, Armenia — September 2, 2026 — The Florida action raises a set of separate, narrow questions, including whether communications and omissions during the transaction, independently of the contractual dispute, caused Hayways to continue incurring costs and defer pursuing alternatives while the process of placing the same aircraft with another airline was already advancing.
The action, Hayways LLC v. The Carlyle Group Inc., et al., Case No. 2026-009960-CA-01, is pending in the Circuit Court of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit in and for Miami-Dade County, Florida. It concerns alleged extra-contractual communications and omissions relating to Boeing 737-800 MSN 29636 and the transaction-period sequence pleaded in the complaint.
According to the May 15, 2026 complaint, Hayways agreed in November 2021 to lease MSN 29636 for planned Armenian operations. On March 14, 2022, according to the complaint, Hayways was asked to submit a revised business plan. Hayways submitted that revised plan the following day and continued to address insurance, documentation and delivery-related matters. Hayways representatives then met with Carlyle-affiliated personnel in Miami between approximately March 17 and March 21, 2022.
The complaint alleges that, during substantially the same period, an alternative placement of the same aircraft with Slovak carrier AirExplore was already materially advancing. It alleges that a Letter of Intent concerning MSN 29636 existed by approximately March 14, 2022, and that Carlyle-affiliated personnel were communicating concerning the aircraft and approval timing by March 18. The Letter of Intent was not the final AirExplore lease. Fly Aircraft Holdings Fourteen Limited issued its termination notice on March 21, 2022, and the complaint states that a lease of MSN 29636 to AirExplore was executed on or about April 28, 2022. The aircraft, later registered OM-NEX, went on to operate with AirExplore.
Hayways alleges that it was not informed of the material status of the parallel AirExplore process while it continued to revise its plans, provide information, address insurance and delivery matters, and attend meetings concerning its own transaction. The Florida complaint asks the court to determine whether the communications and omissions alleged in that sequence caused Hayways separate reliance, transaction-process and mitigation losses.
Hayways intends to pursue justice on American soil, under American law, and to have the questions raised by this record answered through the judicial process. This is a matter of evidence: what Hayways was asked to do, what it was told, what was not disclosed, and what was happening with the same aircraft at the same time. Hayways has placed those questions before the Florida court and has demanded a jury trial.
The complaint seeks compensatory damages limited to independent, non-duplicative tort losses allegedly caused by the conduct at issue. It states that the amount in controversy exceeds US$750,000, exclusive of interest, costs and attorneys’ fees. Hayways has demanded a jury trial. The allegations remain to be adjudicated. This release is confined to the allegations and public record of the pending Florida action.
Ovsanna Stepanyan
