A Delta Air Lines pilot is alleging that the Air Line Pilots Association discriminated against its disabled members when it set up a plan to allocate $2.1 billion granted by the airline in exchange for pay and benefit concessions the pilots made while the airline was in bankruptcy reorganization.

In a putative class action filed in federal district court in Alabama in September and transferred to the Northern District of Georgia on Dec. 13, pilot Kent Gilliland alleges that ALPA discriminated against him and other disabled pilots by granting them lesser benefits than those who were not on long-term disability.

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