Fine is largest ever issued by U.S. Department of Transportation against an airline for civil rights violations.
Lufthansa has been fined $4 million for allegedly discriminating against Jewish passengers after the German airline in 2022 refused to let 128 travelers board a flight, the U.S. government announced on Tuesday.The carrier at the time apologized for the incident in which a large group of travelers — most wearing distinctive garb typically worn by Orthodox Jewish men — were blocked from getting on a connecting flight in Frankfurt, Germany.
Despite many of the passengers not knowing one another and not traveling together, Lufthansa treated the men as a single group and prevented all of them from boarding for the alleged misbehavior of a few, the U.S. Department of Transportation said.
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