News / Air cargo antitrust carriers face trial after US court rules there is a case to answer

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A handful of cargo airlines are to face trial in January after failing to convince a New York court to end a class action lawsuit against them.

On Monday, Judge John Gleeson, the key decision-maker in the slew of air cargo antitrust cases which are overshadowing both the airline and forwarding industry, heard arguments from the only airlines which have not already settled – Air China Cargo, Air India, Air New Zealand and Atlas/Polar Air – that there was no case ...