Cochise Airlines

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Nov 4, 1974

214 N.L.R.B. 628 (N.L.R.B. 1974)

628 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
Cochise Airlines and International Brotherhood of
Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Help-
ers of America, Local 310, Petitioner . Case 28-
RC-2722
November 4, 1974
DECISION AND ORDER
BY CHAIRMAN MILLER AND MEMBERS JENKINS AND
KENNEDY
Upon a petition duly filed under Section 9(c) of
the National Labor Relations Act, as amended, a
hearing was held before Hearing Officer Harroliese
Brown on April 30, 1974. The Regional Director for
Region 28 then transferred the case to the Board for
decision.
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 3(b) of the
National Labor Relations Act, as amended, the Na-
tional Labor Relations Board has delegated its au-
thority in this proceeding to a three-member panel.
The Board has reviewed the Hearing Officer's rul-
ings made at the hearing and finds that they are free
from prejudicial error. They are hereby affirmed.
Upon the entire record in this case, the Board
finds:
The Employer is an Arizona corporation with its
principal place of business at the Tucson Interna-
tional Airport in Arizona. It is a scheduled passenger
and freight air carrier operating an average of 40
flights a day, with 4 airplanes, all within the State of
Arizona. Cochise also provides a charter flight ser-
vice intrastate and interstate. These interstate char-
ters are an average of no more than 400 miles in
distance from Phoenix, and the Employer's counsel
asserts that these flights represent less than 2 percent
of the Employer's gross income. The Employer car-
ries no United States mail.
Cochise has interline arrangements with air car-
riers engaged in interstate commerce. Approximately
60 percent of the passengers carried by the Employer
are involved in these interline arrangements. At pres-
ent Cochise has a contract with American Air Lines
to fulfill American's obligations under the Civil Aer-
onautics Board to provide air carrier service from
Phoenix to Douglas, Arizona. This contract will ex-
pire in October 1974.
Section 2(2) of the Act provides, in pertinent part,
that the term "employer" as used in the National
Labor Relations Act shall not include any person
subject to the Railway Labor Act.
Accordingly, because of the nature of the jurisdic-
tional question presented here, we requested the Na-
tional Mediation Board to study the record in this
case and determine the applicability of the Railway
Labor Act to the Employer. In reply, we were admin-
istratively advised by the National Mediation Board
as follows:
A review of the record materials submitted
with your request, and independent research by
the National Mediation Board, confirms that
Cochise Airlines engages in regular interstate air
common carriage by providing scheduled, char-
ter and substitute air carrier transportation serv-
ices. It is also noted that a very substantial per-
centage (60%) of Cochise's passengers fly on in-
terline tickets.
Therefore, the National Mediation Board has
concluded that Cochise Airlines' operations fall
within the jurisdictional scope of Section 201 of
Title II of the Railway Labor Act.
In view of the foregoing, we shall dismiss the peti-
tion.
ORDER
It is hereby ordered that the petition in Case 28-
RC-2722 be, and it hereby is, dismissed.
214 NLRB No. 97