Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines is asking the Supreme Court to review a lower court ruling extending the application of California’s wage-and-hour laws simply because they report to a California airport to begin their multi-day, multi-state work shift. The flight attendants spend the lion’s share of their workweek outside of California The case is Delta Air Lines v. Oman, court file 21-396, an appeal from the often-reversed U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. The respondents, who are four current or former flight attendants who seek to represent a class of Delta Air Lines flight attendants who have performed work in California, have until Nov. 12 to file a response with the Supreme Court. Experts say consumers have benefitted from the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 which deregulated the airline industry in the United States, removing federal control over such areas as fares, routes, and market entry of new airlines. Delta …