{"id":1670128,"date":"2022-10-03T12:50:25","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T16:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1670128"},"modified":"2022-10-03T12:51:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T16:51:09","slug":"american-airlines-ceo-defends-jetblue-alliance-in-antitrust-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/american-airlines-ceo-defends-jetblue-alliance-in-antitrust-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"American Airlines CEO defends JetBlue alliance in antitrust trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Famerican-airlines-ceo-defends-jetblue-alliance-in-antitrust-trial%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1670128&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>By Diane Bartz and David Shepardson<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The head of American Airlines Group denied Monday that his company\u2019s alliance with JetBlue Airways Corp meant that the two airlines had created a de facto merger in the northeastern United States.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\">\n<\/div>\n<p>Chief Executive Robert Isom, testifying in an antitrust trial in Boston, pushed back against assertions that the companies acted as a single airline in Boston and the New York area following creation of their Northeast Alliance in 2020. The Justice Department has asked a judge to order it undone.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Department attorney Bill Jones said that in the four airports covered by the alliance, customers would view JetBlue and American as a single company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, that\u2019s not true,\u201d Isom said quickly. \u201cWe have our own gate. We have our own planes. We have our own services that make us distinct.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Isom also testified that he had been concerned about competition from Delta and United, particularly in Boston and the New York area. <\/p>\n<p>And he took issue with suggestions that American, the world\u2019s largest airline, could have expanded without JetBlue.<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department\u2019s Jones suggested American did not have to worry about JetBlue going after premium customers in Boston, which Isom disputed saying he said both airlines \u201care going to go after all premium customers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Justice Department, six states and the District of Columbia have called the alliance a \u201cde facto merger\u201d of the companies\u2019 Boston and New York operations, in which they coordinate flights and pool revenue to the detriment of travelers, which it argues face $700 million in extra annual costs.<\/p>\n<p>Isom was pressed on a March 2020 email he sent recounting a conversation with former Delta Chief Executive Richard Anderson about the massive falloff in travel demand from the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Isom\u2019s email said there was agreement the \u201cindustry is going to have to shed a tremendous amount of capacity \u2014 turning the dial back 5 years as a guide to what 2021 looks like.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Congress awarded $54 billion to U.S. airlines in payroll assistance through September 2021 that prevented many significant cuts the industry had forecast.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin, in Boston, will decide the case.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Diane Bartz and David Shepardson; Editing by Bernadette Baum)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/business\/american-airlines-ceo-defends\/attachment\/file-photo-an-american-airlines-airbus-a321-plane-takes-off\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI920QI-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI920QI-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Diane Bartz and David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The head of American Airlines Group denied Monday that his company\u2019s alliance with JetBlue Airways Corp meant that the two airlines had<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1670128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1670128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1670128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1670128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1670128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}