Lufthansa, Germany’s biggest airline, has been fined a record $4 million for discriminating against Jewish passengers, the US Department of Transportation announced Tuesday.

The passengers were travelling from New York to Hungary to attend an event honoring an Orthodox Jewish rabbi.

Fine is largest ever issued by U.S. Department of Transportation against an airline for civil rights violations.

The U.S. Department of Transportation has ordered the German airline Lufthansa to pay a $4 million fine for a 2022 incident in which 128 Jewish passengers were denied boarding. The incident,

The United States has fined German airline Lufthansa $4 million for its treatment of a group of Jewish passengers who were denied boarding a 2022 flight in Frankfurt after they had flown to Germany from New York.

The DOT said Lufthansa recognised that the action also would hurt people who had complied with the instructions but "concluded it was not practical to address each passenger indiv

The U.S. Transportation Department on Tuesday fined Germany-based airline Lufthansa $4 million for violating the rights of 128 Jewish passengers who were traveling from New York City to Frankfurt and Budapest.

Lufthansa has agreed to pay a $4 million penalty for allegedly discriminating against Jewish passengers who were trying to board a connecting flight in Frankfurt in May 2022, the U.S. Transportation Department said on Tuesday.

Lufthansa was fined $4 million by U.S. regulators, who accused the German airline of discriminating against 128 Jewish passengers by stopping them from making a connecting flight due to the alleged misbehavior of a few fliers.

The Transportation Department handed out a record fine after the airline prevented 128 travelers from making a connecting flight in 2022.