The incident occurred on May 4, when a large group of Orthodox Jewish passengers were prevented from boarding a flight to Budapest from Frankfurt, ostensibly due to mask compliance issues.
Lufthansa has agreed to pay tens of thousands of dollars to dozens of Jewish passengers who were denied boarding on a May 2022 flight. Discount travel site Dan’s Deals, which, reports that the estimated settlement amount for the airline is approximately $2.6 million, with $21,000 to be given to more than 100 passengers affected.
Some passengers blocked from the flight later said they were not part of the group that had refused to don masks, and the airline issued an apology, saying it “regrets the circumstances surrounding the decision to exclude the affected passengers from the flight.
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