messiah,
the fine was for years of price fixing, not just the price fixing for first half 2008. So I think it would be a fair assumption that without the fine, the loss for first half 2008 would have been much smaller. Either that or we have to assume that the price fixing led to profits in excess of over $60million US every six months and the US kindly only fined CPA less than six month's worth of cargo price fixing profit!