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Most countries don't have such a thing as class action, and even among the countries that have it, it's only commonly used in the one that invented the idea, and multi-national class action isn't really a thing. So I think you'd find that, far from "especially in the US," you should only expect a class action lawsuit like that for a flight that is either to or from (or both) a US airport.

With lots of of passengers on both flights being from lots of different countries, what they're getting instead is lots and lots and lots of individual lawsuits all being filed in different jurisdictions.

Which is, I'm guessing, likely to be more damaging to them in the long run.

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First Ethiopia lawsuit was filed today in Chicago

MH370 was a multi-national class-action lawsuit filed in SC that was only dismissed because the circumstances of the disappearance were not clear and nothing to do with it being multi-national

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3512628-16319045179....

With the Lion Air crash the settlements the Indonesian government had passengers sign included waiving any right to sue Boeing in the USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/21/world/asia/lion-air-crash...

The fault being with Boeing in this case seems a lot more clear-cut