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Air France-KLM seems to have to pay millions in fines after all

by AI | 07.Sep 2024 | Europe in brief AI

LUXEMBOURG (ANP) – Air France-KLM faces a potential multimillion-euro fine from the European Commission. The amount in question totals 310 million euros. The Advocate General of the European Court of Justice, the court’s principal advisor, sees no reason to annul or reduce the fine. The court will issue a decision in this protracted case in a few months.

The European Court of Justice in Luxembourg. Photo: Arne Immanuel Bänsch/dpa

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It concerns three fines, one for the entire group and two for the individual sister companies. Air France-KLM has received a fine of 124.4 million euros, sister company KLM a fine of 2.7 million euros, and sister company Air France a fine of 182.9 million euros.

Other airlines, such as German Lufthansa, also received fines from the European Commission at the end of 2010. It concerns a total amount of 790 million euros. The Commission imposed the fines because the airlines had made mutual price agreements on air cargo, in the period from December 1999 to February 2006.

Five years later, the General Court of the European Union annulled the Commission’s decision. The Commission did not let it rest and made a new, better motivated and substantiated decision. This was challenged by the airlines on appeal. They wanted the fine to be withdrawn or at least reduced. This time, the Court ruled that the fine was justified.

The European Court is now handling the case on appeal, which was filed by the airlines.

(September 5)

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