New equipment. New technologies. New geopolitical issues. New global opportunities. And, increasingly, new potential liabilities. With so much changing in the aviation and aerospace industry, Marsh can help you manage today’s risk but also anticipate tomorrow’s. With a global staff serving the aviation and aerospace industry for decades, we have a deep understanding of the field’s challenges and claims history. Our innovative solutions are tailored to industry needs.
With Marsh, you gain access to powerful resources, including our industry-leading analytics and claims platforms, our risk consulting expertise, and the specialized knowledge of management consultant Oliver Wyman, another Marsh and McLennan Companies business. Also, as the leading risk insurance broker serving the sector, we have the insurer relationships to find the best deal for your company’s needs.
Marsh’s Aviation & Aerospace Practice is broker to some of the world’s leading airlines, manufacturers, airports, and other industry players. Our clients, large and small, choose Marsh for the information, and resulting intelligence, that helps reduce their total cost of risk, freeing up capital to invest more strategically.
General Aviation
The Marsh Aviation client roster includes several of the world's largest organizations in multiple categories, including:
- Corporate aircraft owners and operators.
- Aircraft managers, including fractional ownership fleets.
- Aircraft maintenance, modification, and overhaul operations.
- Ground handlers.
- Fixed-base operators (FBOs).
- Helicopters and services.
- Leasing companies and banks.
- Air taxi operators.
- Airports and heliports.
Our specialists bring deep experience as underwriters and active pilots. Having worked for air taxi operators and other commercial aviation companies, we understand your needs and communicate them to the insurance carriers. And, by teaming with Marsh's Risk Control Strategies group, we provide loss control engineering for both airside and ground operations, as well as specialist fire-protection studies for hangars and fuel farms.
Airlines
Marsh Aviation is a leader in airline risk management and insurance. Our client roster — comprising more than 180 airlines around the world — is one of the largest in the industry, in terms of number and volume. Clients, large and small, receive Marsh Aviation’s hallmarks of quality service and attention to detail.
Services we provide include:
- Benchmarking.
- Retention-level analysis.
- Contract and lease review.
- Loss control services.
- Claims advocacy.
Manufacturer Product Liability
Aircraft and components manufacturing has grown more complex and competitive — and so has managing your product liability exposures. Marsh Aviation uses our knowledge of the industry and its risks to help a broad spectrum of manufacturers tackle their risk-transfer challenges.
Services we provide include:
- Benchmarking.
- Claims advocacy.
- Contract review.
- Exposure analysis.
- Complex program design and implementation.
- Alternative funding analysis and captive studies.
- Retention-level review.
Space
As space becomes increasingly commercialized, space risk management has evolved from providing simple launch insurance to a complex discipline encompassing:
- Contract analysis and advice.
- Risk evaluation.
- Alternative risk-transfer solutions.
- Insurance program design and implementation.
- Claim negotiation.
Marsh Space Projects is the leading provider of risk management services to the space industry, including manufacturers, satellite operators, launch-service providers, and transponder users. We offer you all the advantages of Marsh's size and global reach, combined with the dedication of a small group focused on this unique specialty. Our specialists are among the most experienced and innovative in the space industry.