Airlines argue since they are not based in state, the law does not apply. Flight crews and pilots already receive such compensation from their employers anyway.
As if traveling isn't stressful enough, with the TSA clown show, delayed flights, rate increases, crowded airplanes, and more. Now comes the revelation that many airlines might be potentially making you a target for ID theft.
As the tragic and shocking facts began to unfold from last week's crash of a Germanwings (Lufthansa) Airliner in the Alps, we have learned perhaps one of the anti-terrorism cockpit "fixes" actually doomed the airplane.