JetBlue Flight Attendant Fails With Florida Whistleblower Suit

A former JetBlue Airways Corp. flight attendant who said he was suspended and then fired for suing the airline for letting an unruly passenger on a flight, and for his lawyer’s use of a flight manifest at that trial, lacks a whistleblower retaliation claim, the Eleventh Circuit ruled.

Mark Butterfield also said his hesitancy to discuss the flight manifest with human resources spurred the retaliation, the court said.

His claim based on his 2013 lawsuit over the passenger incident the year before, which Butterfield alleged violated federal aviation safety rules, was too remote from his November 2018 termination to have ...