EU price-fixing probe spreads to Air France - by Steve McGrath and Geraldine Amiel
AIR France, a unit of Air France-KLM, said yesterday it was questioned by European Union regulators about traffic between the EU and Japan, a day after the airline's Dutch unit KLM and German carrier Lufthansa said they were part of an investigation. Air France said it was providing the European Commission with its full co-operation. The commission, the EU's executive arm, said that EU anti-trust officials had raided the offices of a number of international airlines in an investigation into suspected price-fixing. Lufthansa said the EU commission had information that European and Japanese passenger airlines, including Lufthansa, "may have taken part in anti-competitive price fixing and collusive behaviour in traffic between the EU and Japan".
The German airline said its offices had been searched by anti-trust officials and it was co-operating with the commission. KLM also said it was involved in the probe and was co-operating with the EU.
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