Civil Aeronautics Board v. British Airways Board

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

HAIGHT, District Judge:

In a case demonstrating that Lord Palmerston’s mid-nineteenth century, simplex munditiis view of national self-interest 1 has continuing vitality in the jet age, plaintiff Civil Aeronautics Board (“C.A.B.” or the “Board”) sues to enjoin defendant British Airways Board, doing business as British Airways, from violating the Federal Aviation Act of 1958, as amended, 49 U.S.C. §§ 1301 et seq. (“the Act”). The alleged violation lies in British Airways’ charging certain rates for the carriage by air of particular commodities from the United Kingdom…