TWA Settles Sexual Harassment Suit for $2.6 Million

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"The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Thursday that female workers in all posts, except flight crews, have been subjected to sexual harassment since January 1988."

Except flight crews? Remember the Continental A-300 captain who got a large EEOC settlement for claiming she was harassed in the cockpit. Er, I meant to say on the flight deck...

Money seems to remedy all these claims of harassment and discrimination.

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May 24, 2001

AMR's Trans World Airlines Unit Settles
Sexual Harassment Suit for $2.6 Million

Dow Jones Newswires

AMR Corp.'s Trans World Airlines Inc. will pay $2.6 million to settle a lawsuit alleging sexual harassment of female employees at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.


The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Thursday that female workers in all posts, except flight crews, have been subjected to sexual harassment since January 1988.

The suit was filed in June 1998, stemming from charges of discrimination by three former employees. The amount of monetary relief paid to individual class members will be determined by the EEOC, and will be paid either directly or through a claim fund.

The EEOC expects the class to include dozens of current and former employees.

TWA, based in St. Louis, settled the suit without admitting liability.

In June 1998, three employees filed their own suit against the carrier and three managers, in addition to the EEOC suit.

That suit, which sought $120 million in damages, alleged female employees at TWA's Kennedy Airport operational control tower were harassed while directing aircraft via radio.

TWA said at the time the charges were false and without merit, and the case is pending. Company officials weren't immediately available to comment Thursday.

In April of this year, AMR's American Airlines acquired TWA out of bankruptcy-law proceedings for $742 million.