AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC. v. C. A. B.

No. 1083, Docket 71-1610.

445 F.2d 891 (1971)

AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC., Petitioner, and Allied Pilots Association, Intervenor-Petitioner, v. CIVIL AERONAUTICS BOARD, Respondent, and Master Executive Council of the Pilots of Trans Caribbean Airways, Intervenor-Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided July 23, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph Barbash, Debevoise, Plimpton, Lyons & Gates, New York City (Gene E. Overbeck, New York City, of counsel), for petitioner.

Martin C. Seham, Surrey, Karasik, Greene & Seham, New York City (Fred C. Klein, New York City, of counsel), for intervenor-petitioner.

O. D. Ozment, Deputy Gen. Counsel (Richard W. McLaren, Asst. Atty. Gen., Howard E. Shapiro, Atty., Dept. of Justice, R. Tenney Johnson, Gen. Counsel, Warren L. Sharfman, Associate Gen. Counsel, Litigation and Research, Robert L. Toomey and Alan R. Demby, Attys., C.A.B., of counsel), for respondent.

Ronald B. Natalie, Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard & McPherson, Washington, D. C. (James M. Verner, John H. Wanner, Harry C. McPherson, Washington, D. C., of counsel), for intervenor-respondent.

Before FRIENDLY, Chief Judge, and LUMBARD and OAKES, Circuit Judges.


FRIENDLY, Chief Judge:

Every airline merger presents difficult human and financial problems of the relative privileges of the employees of the two carriers. Knowing that such problems would arise in the merger of Trans Caribbean Airways, Inc., (TCA) into American Airlines, Inc., which, indeed, had already been aired at the hearings, the Civil Aeronautics Board in its order of approval, effective December 31, 1970, announced that it would impose the labor protective...

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