Southwest
Airlines Lied About Prices, Twice — and **w It Has to Pay
The Department of Transportation is continuing its *****down on false advertising, fining
Southwest Airlines $200,000 for violating the full-fare advertising rule.
In October of last year,
Southwest ran television promotions in Atlanta that advertised $59 fares to New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. The DOT's Aviation Enforcement ****** investigated the matter and found that the airline did **t actually have seats for that price between Atlanta and the listed cities for the advertised travel days.
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This was the second time the airline had been fined by the DOT in the past year. The government had previously suspended the civil penalty against
Southwest in August 2013, but said on Thursday that
Southwest would have to immediately pay an additional $100,000
— half the fine issued in August
— for violating the same regulation again within a single year.
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