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Vinson & Elkins LLP

Massachusetts Federal Judge Finds That Joint Venture Between American Airlines and JetBlue Serving the Northeast Violates...

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On Friday May 19, 2023, Massachusetts Federal District Judge Leo T. Sorokin found that the partnership between JetBlue and American Airlines (“American”), known as the “Northeast Alliance” or “NEA,” harmed competition in the...more

Cozen O'Connor

AGs Join U.S. DOJ in Objecting to JetBlue’s Acquisition of Spirit Airlines

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The Massachusetts, New York, and the District of Columbia AGs joined the U.S. DOJ in filing an antitrust lawsuit challenging JetBlue Airways Corporation’s proposed acquisition of Spirit Airlines, Inc., arguing the acquisition...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

“Horizontal Shareholding:” Is Oligopoly Pricing a Symptom or the Disease?

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In 2008, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division (“DOJ”) let Delta Air Lines merge with Northwest Airlines. Two years later, in 2010, the DOJ cleared United Airlines’ acquisition of Continental Airlines, after the...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

“Airline Collusion” Private Class Actions

Last week, we discussed public reports of an investigation by the DOJ of four major airlines (American, Delta, Southwest, and United) regarding possible collusion. Over the past two months, a number of consumers have filed...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Foreign Airlines Move to Dismiss Rate-Fixing Litigation

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Last Friday, foreign cargo carriers filed motions to dismiss an air freight price-fixing suit brought by Schenker AG, the logistics division of Germany’s national railway company, Deutsche Bahn, in the Eastern District of New...more

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