Class action

Option consommateurs filed a class action against American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Southwest Airlines, United Airlines, Air Canada and Air Canada Rouge regarding airline tickets purchased in Québec between January 1, 2010 and July 1, 2015 for scheduled flights to the United States, or between Canada and the United States. Option consommateurs pleads, among other things, that during this period, these airlines conspired among themselves to fix, maintain, increase and artificially control the price of scheduled flights in the United States and between Canada and the United States, to allocate market share and to unduly reduce competition. Option consommateurs believes that the cartel set up by the defendants had the effect of artificially inflating the price of the above-mentioned airline tickets purchased by the group members.

The class action seeks a judgment ordering reimbursement of the portion of the airline tickets overpaid by members of the proposed class.