Qantas admits cargo price-fixing

Qantas is one of four airlines convicted so far

Qantas Airways has pleaded guilty to being part of a conspiracy to fix air cargo prices on routes from Canada between May 2002 and February 2006.

It has been fined 155,000 Canadian dollars ($133,000; £82,000) by Canada's Competition Bureau.

Air France, KLM and Martinair have previously pleaded guilty to the price-fixing charges.

The bureau said that all four had admitted fixing surcharges on routes leaving Canada.

It added that the investigation into other air cargo carriers was continuing.

The other three airlines involved were fined a total of 10m Canadian dollars.

"Conspiracies to fix prices are a serious criminal offence that harm everyone but the perpetrators who cheat the system," said Melanie Aitken, interim Commissioner of Competition.