About the Case

Several years ago, three groups of flight attendants filed lawsuits against American Airlines ("AA"), AMR Corp. and the Association of Professional Flight Attendants ("APFA") for having imposed what the Company and Union referred to as the "Restructuring Participation Agreement" ("RPA") on American Airlines' flight attendants. Each of the lawsuits challenged the manner in which the RPA had been negotiated, voted upon and allegedly approved, and charged AA and APFA with having violated their statutory, federal common law and state law duties. The "RPA Lawsuit" is the result of the consolidation of those three actions.

On July 22, 2008, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York dismissed two-thirds of plaintiffs' claims on technical legal grounds, without reaching the substance of the claims, and granted defendants summary judgment on the remaining claims. On August 20, 2008, a group of flight attendants filed Notice that they were appealing the District Court's Decision to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, both on their own behalf and behalf of a proposed Class of similarly situated flight attendants.