With this week’s announcement of a $55 million settlement with Asiana Airlines, the number of remaining defendants in the massive air cargo antitrust litigation has shrunken to just six—five if you count a notice alerting the court last month that Nippon Cargo Airlines is also close to a deal.
Asiana and the others may have been smart to get out of the case when they did. On Wednesday U.S. Magistrate Judge Viktor Pohorelsky in Brooklyn issued a 114-page decision recommending that the court grant the plaintiffs’ motion for class certification, which was filed way, way back in October 2011. Unless the defendants successfully contest the ruling, the decision would establish a class of all persons or businesses that purchased air freight shipping services directly from the defendants to or from the United States from January 2000 to September 2006.
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