U.K. Investigates Airline Price Fixing

By Robert Wall wall@aviationweek.com
LONDON

The U.K.’s Office of Fair Trading has launched an investigation into allegations of price fixing between Virgin Atlantic and Cathay Pacific on the London to Hong Kong route.

“The case concerns a number of alleged contacts between employees of the two airlines over a number of years which it is alleged had the object of coordinating the parties’ respective pricing strategies regarding passenger fares through the exchange of commercially sensitive information on pricing and other commercial matters,” the OFT says in ...

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