• Germany: Fine imposed for coordinating Ticket Prices for Flights to Turkey On 28 September 2010, the Bundeskartellamt imposed a fine of € 1 200 000 on Condor Flugdienst GmbH for its involvement in an illegal agreement on the prices of flights from Germany to Turkey infringing national competition law and Article 101 TFEU. No fine was imposed on the airline SunExpress which also participated in the agreement, as it benefitted from immunity in accordance with the Bundeskartellamt’s Leniency Programme. According to the Bundeskartellamt’s investigations the two companies agreed, among others, on the fact that SunExpress would not offer flights from Germany to Turkey for less than € 99 in the summer of 2009. Moreover, the price of an air ticket was to be set at no more than € 10 below the price offered by Condor. The agreement covered routes simultaneously operated by the two companies; only the seat- only business was affected. The agreement ended in the autumn of 2009 following the discovery of the competition law infringement during an internal audit. The proceedings were triggered by a leniency application filed by SunExpress, a joint venture of Deutsche Lufthansa AG and Turkish Airlines. Condor is a fully owned subsidiary of Thomas Cook AG. The decision followed a settlement with Condor and has become final as the undertaking did not appeal the decision. In settlement cases, the Bundeskartellamt will generally issue only a shortened fines decision limited to outline the basic facts and the main legal assessment. Also these decisions are usually not appealed before the court. See further: http://www.bundeskartellamt.de/wEnglisch/News/press/2010_09_28.php

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