The government’s antitrust lawsuit against American Airlines and JetBlue begins Tuesday.
A traveler walks through the JetBlue terminal at Logan Airport in Boston, May 29, 2020. The government is getting its day in court to try to block a partnership between American Airlines and JetBlue. A trial is scheduled to start Sept. 26, 2022, in the Justice Department's antitrust lawsuit against the airlines.
The Trump administration approved the alliance, but the Justice Department began taking a closer look shortly after President Joe Biden took office.American and JetBlue will argue that the partnership has already been in effect for about 18 months and has allowed each airline to offer new routes that would not be economical for either on its own. They say there is no evidence that the deal is hurting consumers.
When the Justice Department filed the lawsuit a year ago, Attorney General Merrick Garland called the American-JetBlue alliance “an unprecedented maneuver” that would lead to higher fares, fewer choices, and poor service for travelers. Kanter didn’t say what those other matters are, but one likely could be JetBlue’s proposal to buy Spirit for $3.8 billion. Spirit CEO Ted Christie, who preferred a merger with Frontier Airlines, fought JetBlue for months by arguing that antitrust regulators would never allow his low-fare airline to be swallowed up by JetBlue, a more conventional and higher-priced carrier.
“They are wrong, and we’ll prove it,” Doug Parker, then American’s CEO, said around the time that the lawsuit was filed. He said blocking the deal would “take away consumer choice and inhibit competition, not encourage it.”
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