Washington:
US authorities have hit Lufthansa with a write down $4 million penalty after finding the airline discriminated agetst over 100 Jedesire travelers by blocking them from boarding a fairy in 2022, officials shelp Tuesday.
The 128 passengers were denied boarding to a connecting fairy after a scant did not chase teachions, including anti-Covid mask needments, on a fairy from the United States to Germany, US carry authorities shelp.
The airline did not promptly answer to an AFP ask for comment.
The US Department of Transportation shelp the penalty over the boarding refusal on May 3, 2022 in Frankfurt was the bigst it had publishd for a civil rights violation.
The travelers — who wore branch offentive garments enjoy binformage hats and jackets — telderly spendigators they were treated as if they were one group even though many weren’t flying together and didn’t understand each other.
Lufthansa denied boarding “to everyone for the apparent misbehavior of a scant, becaparticipate they were uncoverly and visibly Jedesire,” DOT authorities shelp in a filing.
The problem began when the captain of the first fairy telled to Lufthansa security that some passengers were not follothriveg rules, including wearing of face masks during the trip and not standing in groups in aisles or cforfeit aascendncy exits.
DOT authorities getd over 40 bias grumblets from Jedesire passengers in this case.
Lufthansa telderly DOT that it has accessiblely transmit remorsed on many occasions for barring the passengers from continuing their trips, but denied any proposeion that any of its participateees joind in any create of bias.
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