Mesa Air Group Faces Revived Arab Bias Suit for Canceled Flight

Two Muslim airplane passengers got their racial discrimination suit against Mesa Air Group Inc. revived, in a case that raised novel questions for the Fifth Circuit.

Just because everyone on the Birmingham-Dallas flight experienced the negative consequence of an airline’s allegedly discriminatory decision doesn’t mean the targets of said discrimination are barred from alleging a civil rights claim, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled Wednesday. Mesa operated the flight for American Airlines.

On September 14, 2019, flight attendant Diana Trujillo, who had less than a year of experience, felt scared about passengers Issam Abdallah ...