Airlines are free to engage in alliances and have been ever since the Deregulation Act of 1978. The threat to competition and to airline prices and fairness in the marketplace is to bless that relationship, codesharing, with immunity from the antitrust laws so that the airlines in the alliance can collude on market and pricing and on scheduling. They should not have antitrust immunity. The alliance is a fair and equitable competition device, but it should not be free from the antitrust laws of the United States.
James Oberstar: “Airlines are free to engage in alliances and have been ever since the Deregulation Act of 1978. The threat to…”
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Oberstar addresses concerns about antitrust immunity for airline alliances.
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