Eastern Airlines will no longer be in...

Eastern Airlines will no longer be in contempt of court once it informs employees that it has dropped plans to sell its Boston-to-New York-to-Washington shuttle to another unit of Texas Air Corp., a federal judge said. U.S. District Judge John H. Pratt accepted the company’s report of its compliance with his March 10 order that found Eastern in civil contempt of an injunction issued in connection with a labor dispute with the International Assn. of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. Outside the courtroom, Eastern President Philip Bates reiterated the company’s plan to appeal the contempt citation and the injunction that bars the shuttle sale.