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Old Sep 23, 2010 | 1:45 pm
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Originally Posted by planemechanic
Let me help you with that, this is from the first sentence in the link above:

"Federal officials penalized United Airlines $12,000 for reporting that four of its May flights violated new tarmac-delay rules,"

It was probably hard to see after seeing the same thing in the articles' headline.
Fixed that emphasis for you. The fine is clearly for false reporting.
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