Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit October 7, 1981, Nos. 80-1792, 80-1850 (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Air Line Pilots Ass'n International & Northwest Airlines)

ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission brought this suit on behalf of Northwest Airline pilots entering their year of normal retirement,1 claiming that a collective-bargaining agreement discriminatorily gives age-60 pilots less favorable vacation benefits than younger retiring pilots. The defendants are Northwest Airlines, Inc.