Three foreign airlines will have to pay $2.5 million in fines after they were too slow to reimburse passengers for Covid-19-related delays, the US Department of Transportation (DOT) announced on Tuesday. The department said that it is assessing the total of $2.5 million in civil penalties against Lufthansa, South African Airways and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines for extreme delays in providing refunds they owed to passengers due to flights cancelled or significantly changed in response to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. Under the consent orders, the three airlines are required to provide timel…