Dan’s Deals reports that most of the Jewish passengers who were collectively denied boarding on their connecting flight 1334 to Budapest after flying on Lufthansa flight 401 from JFK to Frankfurt earlier this year have come to a settlement with the airline.
Sources state that the airline has agreed to settle for $20,000 plus $1,000 to cover expenses related to the incident.
The law firm that negotiated that settlement is taking 18% of the $20,000, leaving passengers with $16,400 plus $1,000 to cover expenses, for a total of $17,400 per passenger. Those checks are now being sent out.
Dan reports that roughly 128 passengers were denied boarding and 2 were allowed to board. If the airline paid out $21,000 to each of them, that would be an expense of about $2.7 million. However, some passengers weren’t part of the settlement, for various reasons.
In the aftermath, Lufthansa and the AJC launched a joint initiative to combat global antisemitism. That included the airline endorsing the IHRA’s Working Definition of Antisemitism.
{Matzav.com}
I wish I was on that flight. I could use that free money now.
Why couldn’t I have been on that flight? Why don’t these things ever happen to me? Am I such a loh yutzlach?
So the lawyer will make something in the are of $400,000. Not bad at all.
If you went to college, worked some nominal hours since that flight to now you’d easily earn $17,400 without needing wishes or flights like these. Many professionals earn $500 an hour or more.
You don’t necessarily have to go to college to make a buck. Many college graduates are poor and many non-professional Yeshiva graduates are very rich too.