Frontier Can’t Avoid Jewish Passengers’ Bias Suit Over Ejection

Frontier Airlines Inc. must face claims made by Jewish passengers who alleged discriminatory treatment after they were ejected from a 2021 flight for allegedly not wearing face masks, a New York federal court said.

Frontier filed a partial motion to dismiss or strike portions of the passengers’ complaint.

Flight attendants on a Frontier flight from Miami, Fla. to Queens, N.Y., on Feb. 28, 2021, allegedly forced 12 passengers to deplane after one of them was “repeatedly informed” that masks were required, the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York said. The passengers’ complaint alleged “they were all ...