The group of 128 passengers were denied boarding on a flight in Frankfurt in 2022 after flying to Germany from New York.

From Euronews, German airline Lufthansa was fined a record $4 million (€3.6million) over its treatment of a group of Jewish passengers who attempted to board a 2022 flight in Frankfurt — the largest it has ever issued against an airline for a civil rights violation.

The US Department of Transportation said that a group of 128 passengers who were denied boarding on a flight in 2022 all “wore distinctive garb typically worn by Orthodox Jewish men."

The passengers, who were not all travelling together, told investigators that Lufthansa mistakenly treated them as if they were a group before denying boarding to all based on the alleged misbehaviour by some.