Legal Opinion
DiFiore v. American Airlines, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 20, 2011No. 10-1108, 10-1167, 10-1264PublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOUDIN, Circuit Judge.
In September 2005, American Airlines, Inc. (“American”) began charging passengers a fee of $2 for each bag checked with porters who provide curbside service (called “skycaps”) at Boston’s Logan Airport. Arguing that passengers mistook the fee for a mandatory gratuity for the skycaps and stopped tipping, several porters brought suit against American; the present appeal is a product of that litigation. The facts and proceedings are as follows.
Some passengers at Logan carry their own luggage into the airport and some have it brought inside to the counter by skycaps, but a…
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