The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled that a flight attendant who slipped and fell while traveling to the airport on a shuttle bus from the parking lot was injured in the scope of her employment.

In reaching its decision, the justices upheld the ruling of the Commonwealth Court in favor of plaintiff Betty Bockelman, which held that the parking lot at Philadelphia International Airport where Bockelman parked and took the shuttle to work was, despite being owned by the city of Philadelphia, critical for her employment. The court rejected US Airways’ argument that Bockelman’s transit was not part of her employment.