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16Oct

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Lufthansa fined $4 million for blocking 128 Jewish passengers in 2022 – Times of India

German airline Lufthansa has been fined $4 million for refusing to 128 Jewish passengers to board a flight in 2022, the US government announced on Tuesday. The passengers were wearing a garb specially worn by Orthodox Jewish men and they were not let to board a connecting flight in Frankfurt, Germany. The airline at that time apologized and said it had zero tolerance for "racism, anti-Semitism and discrimination of any type."Those passengers were not travelling together and many of them did not know other but the airline treated them 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. USDOT said the penalty is the largest it has ever issued against an airline for civil rights violations.Lufthansa agreed...

3Oct

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Emirates cancels flights to Iraq, Iran and Jordan amid regional unrest – Times of India

Dubai's Emirates airline has canceled flights to Iraq, Iran, and Jordan for three days due to regional unrest following an Iranian missile strike on Israel. The cancellations affect flights from October 3 to October 5.Emirates issued an official statement saying, "Emirates is canceling all flights to/from Iraq (Basra and Baghdad), Iran (Tehran), and Jordan (Amman) on October 4 and 5 due to regional unrest."This decision follows earlier cancellations of flights between Dubai and Beirut, which will remain suspended until October 8.Apart from Emirates, other airlines are also taking precautionary measures due to the ongoing unrest. Germany's Lufthansa has suspended its flights to Beirut until November 30 and canceled flights to Tel Aviv until October 31. Lufthansa flights to Tehran will also ...

2Oct

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Iran-Israel conflict: Lufthansa Frankfurt to Hyderabad & Mumbai flights return to Germany; Swiss says India flights to get longer – Times of India

Lufthansa LH 756 Frankfurt-Mumbai of Tuesday returned to Germany from over Turkey after Iran launched missile attacks on Israel: (Source: Flightaware) NEW DELHI: With Iran launching missile attacks on Israel late Tuesday night (India time) and the conflict set to worsen, airlines that used to overfly the region are scurrying for safety. Lufthansa’s Tuesday flights from Frankfurt to Hyderabad and Mumbai returned to Germany as the airline decided not to venture in the war zone for safety reasons. Lufthansa’s Frankfurt-Hyderabad LH 752 and Frankfurt-Mumbai LH 756 were over Turkey when Iran launched missile attack on Israel.The aircraft turned back to Frankfurt. Consequently the return flights on these two sectors (India-Germany that these planes would have operated) early Wednesday have been ...