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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8009

19 July 2001
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/competition
Commission slaps fines on SAS and Maersk Air for market-sharing agreement

Brussels, 18/07/2001 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission has decided to slap 39.375 million euro and 13.125 million euro fines, respectively, on the Scandinavian airline companies SAS and Maersk Air for having implemented a secret agreement leading to a monopoly on the Copenhagen-Stockholm route by SAS to the detriment of passengers (over a million) that use that route each year, and for having shared out other routes to and from Denmark.

SAS and Maersk Air concluded a cooperation...

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