Originally Posted by
jiburi
My point is, with B6 agreement in its place, there is no or little incentives to bringing some of these AA flights back. A lost AA flight surely support justice department of reduced competition, no?
The rebuttal that 57 or so new market gain is irrelevant. The point is that AA and possibly B6 has no intention to compete in some of the flights that were discontinued with flights of their own metal, and that's reduced competition.
Jiburi
The point is that is is not reduced competition if AA had stopped operating these routes years before the AA/B6 alliance. What matter is what was operated at the time of the of the application to the DOT.