American Airlines Fights Off Flight Attendant’s Wage Lawsuit

American Airlines Inc. defeated a flight attendant’s allegations that it ran afoul of New York wage protections when a judge ruled the worker lacks standing.

The proposed class action alleges the airline’s payment system violates New York’s pay stub accuracy and late-payments rules. But “like dozens of plaintiffs before him,” the flight attendant doesn’t have standing to pursue the wage-statement claim in a federal forum, and he can’t show that the system’s payments are untimely, the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York said in an opinion filed Tuesday.

Plaintiff Barron Chisolm-Lucas alleges the payment system—an end-of-month ...