American Airlines (AA, Dallas/Fort Worth) is considering its options after a United States appeals court upheld a lower-court decision declaring the airline’s already-scrapped Northeast Alliance with JetBlue Airways (B6, New York JFK) as anticompetitive.

The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit on November 8 agreed with a May 2023 ruling by the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts that the 2020 Northeast Alliance violated federal antitrust laws by coordinating flights and pooling revenues in New York City and Boston. In so…

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