April 20, 2018
Airline passengers asked a California federal judge on Thursday to reject a request from All Nippon Airways Co. Ltd. to delay potentially until 2019 a jury trial in their proposed class action alleging the Japanese carrier participated in a conspiracy to fix prices for long-haul flights to Pacific destinations.
March 13, 2018
Airline passengers accusing a slew of airlines of fixing the price of long-haul flights to Pacific destinations told a California federal judge Tuesday they have agreed to settle with EVA Airways Corp. for $21 million, marking the latest airline to settle out of the sprawling multidistrict litigation.
January 10, 2018
Three airlines accused of fixing the price of long-haul flights to Pacific destinations have agreed to pay a total of $29.4 million to settle a proposed class action, passengers told a California federal court Wednesday.
May 22, 2015
The California federal judge overseeing passengers' antitrust claims in multidistrict litigation against Societie Air France and other airlines gave final approval Friday to their $39.5 million settlement, overruling objections but saying he'd take a closer look at a last-minute bid for an additional $1 million for plaintiffs' attorneys.
September 17, 2014
Qantas Airways Ltd. and Singapore Airlines Ltd. have agreed to pay a total of $9.75 million to settle an antitrust class action accusing the carriers of conspiring to fix rates for passenger fares on transpacific flights, according to court papers filed in California federal court Tuesday.
August 15, 2014
Air New Zealand and four other airlines on Friday urged a California federal judge to throw out a long-running antitrust MDL in which customers accused them of price-fixing travel costs, arguing that the claims are barred because the U.S. Department of Transportation oversees the airlines' fares and surcharges.
August 08, 2014
A California federal judge on Friday granted preliminary approval to a $29.6 million deal between Societie Air France and several other airlines and a class of customers who claimed the carriers conspired to fix ticket prices, overriding other airlines' objections that the settlement could jinx their plans to block class certification.
July 10, 2014
Some airlines accused of colluding to fix the price of fares and surcharges for international flights asked a California federal court on Wednesday to delay preliminary approval of settlements with certain other airlines, arguing that the putative settlement classes don't meet certification requirements.
December 06, 2013
Air New Zealand Ltd. asked a California federal court on Thursday to grant summary judgment in its favor on all claims in a multidistrict litigation where a putative class is accusing it of unlawfully fixing prices on passenger fares and surcharges, arguing that the remaining damage claims are barred by the filed rate doctrine.
October 04, 2011
The California federal judge overseeing multidistrict litigation accusing Singapore Airlines Ltd., Continental Airlines Inc. and others of conspiring to fix prices on long-haul trans-Pacific flights on Tuesday tossed foreign injury claims against the carriers for the second time.