Legal claim over El Al group-booking price hike rejected

El Al states that a class action which accused the Israeli flag-carrier’s ticketing system of unfairly charging higher fares has been rejected in a legal judgement. The airline had disclosed last year that the class action had been filed which alleged potential damages amounting to 147m shekels ($40m). It had centred on a claim that, prior to purchase of a group of tickets, the carrier’s ticket system moved all the fares to a higher price bracket. The claim had argued that the multiple tickets – typically two, three or more – cost far more than they would have if purchased individually. It focused on ticket purchases over a seven-year period which, it said, could have been made at a lower cost. But El Al says that a 14 April judgement was issued “rejecting the request [for the class action] outright” and assigning El Al’s legal costs to the applicant.<br/>