Four current and former British Airways executives have been charged with involvement in fixing the prices of plane fuel surcharges.
BA’s head of sales Andrew Crawley and ex-commercial director Martin George are due to appear before City of London Magistrates Court on 24 September.
Also due up are former communications head Iain Burns and former UK and Ireland sales chief Alan Burnett
British Airways has been accused of colluding in setting prices of fuel surcharges and other levies in the provision of air freight services.
BA confirmed it received a letter of complaint from European Union regulators, alleging that it was part of a suspected air freight cartel.
The complaints were also sent to Germany’s Lufthansa, Air France-KLM and Scandinavia’s SAS
British Airways has been fined about $550 (£270m) after it admitted collusion in fixing the prices of fuel surcharges.
The US Department of Justice has fined it $300m (£148m) for colluding on how much extra to charge on passenger and cargo flights, to cover fuel costs.
It followed a decision by the UK’s Office of Fair Trading to fine BA $250m (£121
British Airways Plc, Britain’s biggest airline, is set to eliminate additional 5,000 office jobs to cut costs, Reuters reported.
The job cuts are in addition to the number already announced as part of BA’s Future Size and Shape restructuring program.
In November, the UK flag carrier said that it was on track to deliver 13,000 job cuts to cope with the industry downturn
Eurostar, the cross-Channel train operator, has called on regulators to scrutinise adverts by British Airways that it says are misleading.
Guillame Pepy, Eurostar’s boss, has asked France’s competition and anti-fraud body, the DGCCRF, to investigate ads offering cheap flights between Paris and London.
The complaint is about French ads that offer customers “London at 29