Legal Opinion
Thompson v. US Airways, Inc.
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided June 15, 2010No. 2:09-gj-00870PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
PRATTER, District Judge.
Introduction
Plaintiffs here are a purported class of individuals who have worked as skycaps at U.S. Airways terminals in Pennsylvania. Skycaps are the aviation equivalent of the railroad redcaps: porters who assist passengers checking luggage at the entrance of the terminal. The Plaintiffs in this case are or have been employed by Prime Flight Aviation Services (“Prime Flight”), which is one of the two defendants in this case. US Airways is the other.
In 2005, U.S. Airways began charging its passengers a $2 fee, collected by sky caps, for each bag checked at…
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