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...Enforcement last week filed formal complaints against nine airlines: American, Braniff, Continental, National, Northwest, Pan American, Trans Caribbean, TWA and United. The bureau asked that the carriers be forced to close their "separate and unequal" facilities at major airports. A separate complaint against American was filed with the CAB by Herbert A. Goldberger, a Providence businessman, after he was denied admission last December to the line's special waiting rooms. "I felt like I'd been sent to the back of the bus," he said...
Open Up. If the five-member CAB upholds its own enforcement unit's complaints, airlines still need not stop giving VIP treatment to a diplomat whose national dignity needs flattering or to a rock 'n' roll singer who needs protection from the mob. All the petitions ask is that the airlines be required to open the same lounge facilities to everyone...
...clubs, the CAB complaints pointed out, are "wholly owned and controlled and managed" by the lines and not the members. They provide "special and superior services not otherwise or generally available" and constitute "unjust discrimination" because they "confer special favor and advantage to selected passengers" who have paid no more than ordinary travelers...
...planned a short strike, hoping that a walkout in the middle of the industry's money-making season would cause the airlines to cave in quickly. Management probably would not have been too displeased by an expensive settlement, since they would then be able to plead poverty when the CAB demanded further fare cuts...
...have found their bargaining positions frozen: the union can't back down from its demands because of internal politics and external rivalries; management fears that a union victory, which could serve as a model for other labor disputes in the near future, will bring down the wrath of the CAB...