More immunity!?
Dec 23, 2009 | 9:07 pm
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More immunity!?
BBC: Star Alliance applies for Pacific antitrust immunity
Lead paragraph: United Airlines, Continental Airlines and All Nippon Airways have applied for antitrust immunity so they can work together on flights across the Pacific.
Thoughts?
Lead paragraph: United Airlines, Continental Airlines and All Nippon Airways have applied for antitrust immunity so they can work together on flights across the Pacific.
Thoughts?
Dec 24, 2009 | 10:19 am
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This has been in discussion since CO announced they'd be joining *A. With the new open-skies between USA and Japan it is a no-brainer. They're going to own a TON of the traffic on those routes. Some other interesting analysis on it here: http://boardingarea.com/blogs/things...rust-immunity/.