Independent Union of Flight Attendants v. United States Department of Transportation

GOODWIN, Circuit Judge:

Petitioner Independent Union of Flight Attendants (IUFA) and four labor organizations, as intervenors, seek review of the Department of Transportation’s decision not to impose labor protective provisions on Pan American Airways’ sale of its Pacific Basin route authorities and assets to United Airlines. The department concluded that labor protective provisions were unnecessary.

Petitioners argue that the decision was erroneously grounded upon an assumption that a strike triggered by tbe merger would not disrupt the national air transportation system. They say the standard…