American Airlines (AA, Dallas/Fort Worth) has asked the Supreme Court of the United States to review and overturn a First Circuit decision to block its Northeast Alliance (NEA) joint venture with JetBlue Airways (B6, New York JFK).

The carrier argued that the lower court had wrongly condemned its partnership with JetBlue without marketwide evidence of harm to consumers. It requested the Supreme Court to clarify how joint ventures should be evaluated under the rule of reason in antitrust cases….

Source: ch aviation
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