A judge ruled Thursday that an antitrust suit challenging an arrangement between American Airlines and JetBlue Airways that allows the carriers to sell the other’s seats on selected Northeast U.S. routes can move to trial.
, U.S. District Judge Leo T. Sorokin in Massachusetts said the question of whether the alliance between the two carriers is likely to harm competition is a question for “trial, not the pending motion to dismiss.” Sorokin added that the argument was a matter “upon which the Court takes no position.”Department of Justice seeks to unwind alliance between American, JetBlue
In seeking to have the case dismissed, American and JetBlue argued that the complaint filed in September by the Justice Department and attorneys general in six states and D.C. was “defective” because it “did not allege that the airlines’ alliance has harmed competition, rather that it “likely will harm competition” or is “likely to have” various harmful effects.
JetBlue said the alliance continues to benefit consumers because it has created a third viable competitor in the Northeast, adding, “We are confident the court will rule in our favor after we present the facts this September.” American and JetBlue announced the partnership in July 2020. In January 2021, shortly before the end of the Trump administration, officials at the Transportation Department allowed the deal to move forward as long as
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