this is really unfair and I don't know how it can be legal

just seen this as an advert on imageshack, assuming it's not real , could end up with some desperate, ill-educated Eastern European thinking they are able to waltz into the USA and just stay there, and therefore ending up in jail, just so someone who is too lazy to do a proper job can make a millionth of a penny every time someone clicks this:

http://content.yieldmanager.edgesui...e.net/12189/74409/20478140564432d6e9e03f2.gif

 

Talking of unfair

BA get a £121.5m fine whilst Virgin collude but get away with it because they tell on BA!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6925397.stm

 

that really is a joke

"look, I've come to confess a murder, but I was helped by my neighbour so I'm immune and you can arrest him."

ok, so it's not the same, but two parties have comitted the same offence so clearly the same punishment should apply

 

Sorry, think you are wrong here

The OFT rely on these big companies to stick to the rules and have no chance of policing them. The only way the OFT could have possibly known about the offending conversation was that when someone at Virgin found out what had happened they immediately told them. Policy is that Virgin are then exempt from punishment. Idea is to try and prevent it from happening. Interesting thing is that neither BA or Virgin benefited financially from the "fix" in the first place.

 

That makes no sense though.

Does that mean that they are encouraging companies to fix prices and then tell them about it?