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Old Aug 15, 2013, 9:28 am
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dangw20
 
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Originally Posted by DCann
I've been reading everything I can since the Tuesday morning announcement.. I wish I had known about this conf call tho. It must have been quite interesting based on the several articles I've read incl this one

American, US Airways Outline Defense, Seek Speedy Trial to Revive Merger
This is the most interesting part to me:

“Of course,” the lawyers said, “there are connecting flights that are theoretically competitive but that’s true of any transaction in the airline industry.”
Whether there is a connection or not, both airline's are selling a ticket from A -> B. If they didn't see this as competition, they would have no problem with hidden city ticketing.
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