After the Department of Transportation cleared the final hurdle to the Alaska Airlines- Hawaiian Airlines merger, the deal is expected to close as quickly as possible. Under the merger, Alaska and Hawaiian will retain their separate brands but gain administrative…
UPDATE Jan 20 – JetBlue and Spirit Airlines will appeal the Boston District Court’s ruling to permanently enjoin the proposed acquisition of Spirit by JetBlue. Three days after JetBlue said that it would evaluate the next steps, the two carriers said on…
A federal judge in Boston ruled in favor of the US Justice Department, which sued to block the proposed merger of Spirit Airlines into JetBlue on anti-competitive grounds. US District Judge William Young said that the proposed merger "does violence to the core principle of antitrust law: to protect the United States' markets--and its market participants-- from anticompetitive harm."
The Alaska/Hawaiian deal keeps getting attention as analysts and media dig into whatever data they have. We published some thoughts on the deal based on the conference call here . As expected, both CEOs want to tout the win-win for…
Taking forward the eventual merger between Air India Express and AirAsia India, the two low-cost airlines in the stable of the Tata group, the airline announced the start of interline booking between Air India Express and AirAsia India. Besides these…
Friday’s court ruling that orders American Airlines and JetBlue to unwind their Northeast Alliance within thirty days must have set alarm bells ringing with JetBlue. Although both airlines will lose out, JetBlue seems the most vulnerable. And if the Court ruling is a…