Air Canada has lost a court appeal against a CHF144,000 fine for transporting nine passengers to Zurich without valid Swiss entry documents. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Air Canada has been sanctioned several times by the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) since 2015 for transporting people to Switzerland who lacked the necessary "Inadmissible Passengers" (INADs) travel documents. While the first violation resulted in a warning, the SEM has subsequently imposed fines of CHF4,000 per passenger on several occasions. In 2018, Air Canada transported 14 who displayed suicide risk. Due to the repeated offenses, a penalty of CHF16,000 per person was imposed, totaling CHF224,000. This decision was not appealed. However, the airline ultimately filed an appeal against the SEM penalty of CHF144,000 for nine suicide risk individuals in the first half of 2019. Air Canada pointed to its efforts to raise awareness among its staff and emphasised that the rate of ...
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