GERMANY’S flagship airline has been hit with a $4 million penalty over allegations the company discriminated against a group of Jewish passengers.
The US Department of Transportation said Lufthansa denied 128 Jewish passengers from boarding their connecting flight from Frankfurt to Budapest, Hungary, on May 4, 2022.
A view inside the economy class seating on a Lufthansa Airbus A350 passenger plane
The passengers, many of whom wore distinctive clothing worn by Orthodox Jewish men, did not know each other but were treated as a single group by the airline, according to the USDOT.
Lufthansa denied them from boarding due to alleged misbehavior by others, the passengers told the USDOT.
Some passengers were accused of violating the airline’s mask policy, Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt told NBC News in May 2022.
Lipstadt called the airline’s actions “classic antisemitism.”
“Unbelievable. [When] I first heard it, I said, ‘Oh, this must be wrong. Someone must be misreporting this,’” Lipstadt said at the time.
“And then, of course, it turned out to be precisely right – and worse than we even thought.”
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