Originally Posted by
ByrdluvsAWACO
If LATAM definitely stays in OW, I just don't see how the EU will approve of IAG buying TP. It will give OW and insane amount of pricing power from the Iberian peninsula to S America. Combining AA, LATAM, IB and TP would be nearly monopolistic.
but if they are bought by LH this would increase their already unhealthy stranglehold they have in CE market, although I doubt the clowns running EU antitrust would give more than a cursory glance.