Originally Posted by Dave Noble

AA and BA collaborating on fares and surcharges is most definitely affecting competition. Identical fares with identical rules and identical surcharges is not competitive or beneficial to customers. The competing airlines should be --- competing!

I don't think that any of these anti competitive arrangements should be permitted. There should be no immunity to anti trust for any carriers. That some have been approved before on transatlantic routes is not any reason to grant new ones - especially on new regions