{"id":377660,"date":"2026-02-28T13:10:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T03:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/910-million-cargo-fine-why-2-guilty-airlines-paid-nothing\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T13:10:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T03:10:36","slug":"the-910m-cargo-fine-why-2-guilty-airlines-paid-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=377660","title":{"rendered":"The $910M Cargo Fine: Why 2 Guilty Airlines Paid Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fines have amounted to a total of EU 770 million ($910 million) for airlines taking part in cargo collusion that in total spanned more than a decade. The European Court of Justice has upheld the fines for 13 airlines for the cargo collusion, which was ruled in 2017. The collection of airlines appealed the fines lodged; two carriers faced $0 in fines, <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255194\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/swiss\/\"  >SWISS<\/a><\/span> and <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255195\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/lufthansa\/\"  >Lufthansa<\/a><\/span>, as they were the &#8216;whistle blowers&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These whistleblowers narrowly escaped multi-million dollar fines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,620,121,1377,82,734,1915],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-cargo","category-european-union","category-fine","category-germany","category-lufthansa","category-swiss"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=377660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377661,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377660\/revisions\/377661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=377660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=377660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=377660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}