That is prompting the big airlines to fire back with fare wars, frequent-flier offers and extra flights of their own.
The women appealed, only for the airline to fire them in 2009 as the country's Supreme Court was still considering the case.
The meeting between executives and labor leaders followed weeks of angry exchanges, including a call by the Air Line Pilots Association for the airline to fire Mr. Siegel.
In 2011 the list was headed by airline pilots, fire-fighters and taxi drivers.
The only occupations that were rated as more stressful were those involving life and death: airline pilot, fire-fighter, military general and, at number one, enlisted military personnel.
That incident came just days after another GS Yuasa battery on a parked Japan Airlines plane caught fire at Boston's Logan Airport.
All Nippon Airways and Japan Air Lines are the biggest operators of the Dreamliner, with 24 of the planes between them, and were the first to fly the jets in 2011; they were also the airlines that experienced fire or smoke in 787 batteries.
Boeing's entire fleet of Dreamliners was grounded after a battery on a Japan Airlines 787 caught fire, and a malfunction forced an ANA flight to make an emergency landing.
The Note 7 debacle hasn't been good for anyone — not for Samsung, not for Android, not for consumers, not for airlines, not for fire departments, not for stylus-lovers and certainly not for Oculus.
In January 2012, Hong Kong Airlines came under fire after reaching a deal involving dolphins captured in Tajii, Japan (the site of the annual dolphin drive hunt, featured in the Oscar winning film, The Cove) being transported to dolphin parks around the world.
