Maria advises airlines, helicopter operators, ground handling companies, and maintenance companies, as well as their insurers and reinsurers.

She has defended major international airlines across their entire route structure and dealt with many major losses and subrogation claims. She has also provided advice to many airlines regarding the handling of major losses and provided training on handling major losses in the unfortunate event that a major loss occurs.

Maria also spent six years as Director of claims and legal affairs at insurer Amlin plc. 

She has been rated Band 1 in "Aviation: Insurance" from Chambers & Partners since 2012.

Featured expertise:

Maria has been involved with a number of cases including: 

• Bond Air Services, Accident Eurocopter EC135 – 22 registration GS-PAO, 2013 Bond offshore Helicopters accident to G-REDW ditching in the north sea, 2009 

• Emirates flight EK521 – crash at Dubai International Airport 2016 

• Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752, shot down after taking off from Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport in Iran, 2020 

• Spanair flight 5022 crash, taking off from Madrid in August 2008 

• Scandinavian Airlines System flight 686, which collided on take-off from Linate Airport in Milan, October 2001 

Quotations:

• "Maria Cetta's commercial vision is very strong" – Chambers & Partners, Aviation: Insurance 

• [Maria is] "highly recommended for her top-notch practice and extensive experience of aviation insurance and cargo catastrophe claims"- Who's Who Legal, Transport 2022 (analysis of the aviation market)