{"id":4320,"date":"2010-04-22T10:59:10","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T09:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=4320"},"modified":"2010-04-23T11:05:13","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T10:05:13","slug":"virgin-atlantic-accused-of-price-fixing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2010\/04\/22\/virgin-atlantic-accused-of-price-fixing\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Atlantic accused of price fixing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/8eed9770-4e3d-11df-b48d-00144feab49a.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4321\" title=\"100423_virgin\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/100423_virgin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>Sir Richard Branson\u2019s Virgin Atlantic airline on Thursday night moved to defend its reputation after Britain\u2019s competition watchdog accused it for the second time of conspiring with a rival to fix prices charged to passengers. The Office of Fair Trading claimed that employees of Cathay Pacific Airways and Virgin exchanged commercially sensitive information between 2002 and 2006 with the aim of co-ordinating ticket prices on the busy London-Hong Kong route. The OFT\u2019s case comes after Virgin admitted involvement in a separate cartel that led the watchdog to impose its biggest ever corporate fine on British Airways and to prosecute four of BA\u2019s past and present executives in a criminal trial due to start next week. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/8eed9770-4e3d-11df-b48d-00144feab49a.html\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: UK |  Company \u2014 Ethical Quote    link: Virgin Atlantic | Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/8eed9770-4e3d-11df-b48d-00144feab49a.html\" target=\"_blank\">Financial Times<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Richard Branson\u2019s Virgin Atlantic airline on Thursday night moved to defend its reputation after Britain\u2019s competition watchdog accused it for the second time of conspiring with a rival to fix prices charged to passengers. The Office of Fair Trading claimed that employees of Cathay Pacific Airways and Virgin exchanged commercially sensitive information between 2002&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-4320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4320"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=4320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}