Low-Flying Settlement

Re “Airlines Found Liable in Death of Asthmatic,” June 8: Pop go the champagne bottles! The lawyers for both American and British West Indies Airlines must be clinking their glasses and filling out the $170,000 check for Caroline Neischer’s survivors faster than a lost luggage form. Life surely is cheap when a court finds this woman’s earthly value to the community, family and friends, had she lived, worth less than $22,000 a year, or $550 for each of her 40 remaining grandchildren.

If this is American’s idea of “doing what we do best,” it can count on this frequent business traveler choosing friendlier skies.

Tad Malone

La Canada