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TORONTO • An Ontario judge has certified a class-action lawsuit that accuses Air Canada and several other international airlines of a price-fixing conspiracy that allegedly raised the cost of shipping air cargo to and from Canada for more than six years.

The case has been wending its way through the courts since February 2008, when the plaintiffs first filed to have it certified as a class action.

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Since then, several of the accused airlines — including British Airways, Air France and Australia’s Qantas Airways — have settled.

In its statement of admissions, Air France acknowledged that it “conspired, combined, agreed or arranged with other air cargo carriers to lessen competition unduly in Canada in the sale and supply of international air carriage services for cargo on certain routes originating in Canada by fixing surcharges, including fuel and other surcharges.”

Several other airlines have made similar admissions.