Honeywell updates Flexjet disclosure as keyboard critics pile on

Social media posters overwhelmingly sided with Flexjet in its lawsuit against Honeywell as the aerospace company was predicting record demand.

By Doug Gollan, October 25, 2025

In its latest filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Honeywell International updated its disclosure covering potential liability in its litigation with Flexjet Inc.

Recent coverage of the lawsuit is also showing little support for Honeywell.

The aerospace company produced the engines powering Flexjet’s Challenger 300, Praetor 500, and Praetor 600 private jet fleets.

The lawsuit was filed in 2023.

It stems from a Mechanical Services Agreement signed in 2019.

The 15-year pact called for Honeywell to service and maintain the HTF engines.

The contract called for liquidated damages of $30,000 per day per engine if they were not returned on schedule or if Honeywell could not provide replacements from an engine bank.

In a story about the lawsuit published by Private Jet Card Comparisons on Oct. 15, 2025, Flexjet Chairman Kenn Ricci told us, “At the peak – December of 2024 and January 2025 – there were 91 engines off-wing supported by a small percentage of rental engines for a net impact of nearly 40 aircraft parked. At that time, some engines had been out of service for nearly three years.”

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Honeywell Lawsuit Update

In a filing with the SEC on Oct. 23, 2025, Honeywell amended a disclosure related to litigation matters.

Honeywell continued to maintain, as it did in filings related to Q2 2025 results, that “it does not expect the outcome of the Flexjet-related matters, either individually or in the aggregate, to have a material adverse effect on the Company’s consolidated financial position.”

However, it did add a dollar amount this time.

The disclosure noted, “In court filings, Flexjet claimed, based on summary judgment rulings to date, that it is entitled to liquidated damages of at least $500 million, and further claimed that it is owed additional liquidated damages substantially in excess of that amount, in each case before pre-judgment interest.”

Honeywell is appealing those rulings.

In an Oct. 21, 2025, update on the lawsuit by CH-Aviation, Kenn Ricci provided a statement.

He told CH-Aviation:

‘We urge everyone who works with these large industry suppliers to demand excellence and integrity. One of our fundamental principles is taking a long-term approach to relationships. We entered into our agreement with Honeywell in good faith, and we simply expected the same in return.” He added: “I’m speaking out, after several years, not just for us, but for the smaller operators who face even greater vulnerability. If this is acceptable behavior, it threatens the very foundation of our industry.’

Down On Honeywell

Comments about the CH-Aviation article posted on Facebook were overwhelmingly on the side of Flexjet.

An AI analysis of the nearly 60 comments found them “strongly anti-Honeywell.”

One poster wrote, “Honeywell doesn’t care to support any of their products that aren’t defense.”

Another posted, “When you have a stranglehold on the super midsize market, it seems you don’t have to give a rip about customer service. Just more customers waiting on parts, and they don’t care. Let’s hope this lights even the smallest fire under them.”

A third poster added, “They are so worried about the bottom line. This is what happens. They deserve it.”

Yet another post wrote in part, “I understand supply chain issues, but by now the world is past that… now it just looks like poor management.”

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