Originally Posted by
Superguy
US and AA are going to have to show DoJ how any concessions will maintain the competitiveness of the market if they're allowed to merge. I still think that's an uphill battle. Dougie can't just walk in and say he was just kidding with those emails. He also has to go against the previous airlines lying thru their teeth when it came to promises of competition.
There is no realistic way to show that competition won't take a hit with this merger. They can run the market analysis any way they wish, but hundreds of years of oligopoly behavior suggests that they'll just play follow the leader with fee and fare hikes. If AA has a plan to emerge from bankruptcy on its own and not go out of business, I don't see how any market analysis allows this merger to happen.