Alaska Airlines (AS, Seattle Tacoma International) has asked the Hawaiian District Court to dismiss a consumer challenge against its proposed USD1.9 billion merger with Hawaiian Airlines (HA, Honolulu), arguing that most of the eight plaintiffs are serial litigants who have unsuccessfully challenged nearly every airline merger in recent US history.

The airline argues that the plaintiffs claim to be airline passengers but have no connection to Alaska Airlines or Hawaiian Airlines and have recycled “the same boilerplate…

Source: ch aviation
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