Airlines Transportation Co. v. Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission

Concurring and Dissenting Opinion by

Judge Blatt :

I concur in the majority’s affirmance of the Commission’s order extending service to Webster Hall, but I must dissent from the reversal of the Commission’s order requiring service to Howard Johnson’s. I believe that there was substantial evidence to support the finding of the Commission that Howard Johnson’s suffered a competitive disadvantage here, which the Commission properly believed should be remedied.

The majority has held here that the evidence presented by Howard Johnson’s was speculative and conjectural, but, in so doing, it has adopted…