Carve-Outs Under Airline Antitrust Immunity: In the Public Interest?

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Jan Brueckner, Stef Proost, Sep 15, 2009

Prohibitions on cross-border airline mergers preclude full integration of U.S. and foreign carriers, but a grant of antitrust immunity (“ATI”) allows substantial cooperation between a U.S. airline and its foreign alliance partners. Immunity allows collaboration in the provision of international service in two principal types of markets. One market type involves travel between