Striking TWA flight attendants lost a court fight.

U.S. District Judge Howard F. Sachs ruled in Kansas City, Mo., that Trans World Airlines’ flight attendants who joined a strike earlier this year cannot use their seniority to replace 1,284 union members who crossed the picket lines. In the three months since the strike ended, the Independent Federation of Flight Attendants has tried to win back jobs now held by nearly 3,000 newly hired attendants and union members who refused to join the strike. Sachs ruled only on the issue of union members who crossed picket lines.