COVID-19: The French Competition Authority rejects for lack of evidence the referral of travel agencies denouncing the concerted non-reimbursement of flights cancelled by 90 airlines (Cediv Travel)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. On 8 December 2020, the Competition Authority issued a decision no. 20-D-21 in favour of which it rejects, on the basis of the second paragraph of Article L. 462-8 of the Commercial Code, the referral to the merits of the cooperative company CEDIV TRAVEL and 55 of its members, travel agencies (out of 254), for lack of evidence and, therefore, the request for precautionary measures ancillary to the referral. In the particular context of the Covid-19 epidemic, which led to massive cancellations of flights to and from France from 17 March 2020, the complainants denounced not only a concerted practice since