Northwest Airlines, Inc. v. Civil Aeronautics Board

WILBUR K. MILLER, Circuit Judge.

In its Docket No. 3469, a proceeding which it instituted of its own initiative on August 26, 1948, the Civil Aeronautics Board entered an order on May 5, 1950, granting to Capital Airlines a certificate to operate nonstop flights between Cleveland and New York. The application of Northwest Airlines for such authority, filed September 4, 1945, had not been heard or considered by the Board when it certificated Capital and, for that reason, Northwest petitions for review.

We set forth the status of the parties before the entry of the challenged order, and enough of…