That's No Tip, That's A Service Charge. No, That's A Rip Off And This Is A Lawsuit.

MayorBob.

Posted to Legal on Wed Dec 27, 2006 at 03:29:56 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

When you're a part of the service industry where tipping is part of the deal, those tips make up for what is typically a reduced minimum wage.  So it has been for the skycaps working American Airlines flights out of Boston's Logan Airport.  Their (US)$2.63 per hour wage was nicely increased by the $1 to $2 a bag tip that flyers used to tip them.  But, things change in life and so it is with skycap fees and American Airlines at Logan.  The airline began charging passengers a fee for baggage checked with the skycaps.  Only thing is, according to the skycaps, they didn't make it clear to the passengers that the fee was going to the airline and not to the skycaps and the passengers stopped tipping the skycaps.  The skycaps say this is unfair and they're tired of complaining to the airline about it, so they've filed a class-action lawsuit against the airline for their economic loss.

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