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A U.S. appeals court on Friday held that a trial judge correctly found that American Airlines’ now-scrapped U.S. Northeast partnership with JetBlue Airways violated federal antitrust law. The U.S. appeals court rejected on the bid by American Airlines (AA) to overturn a judge’s decision that sided with the U.S. Department of Justice and declared that its now-scrapped U.S. Northeast partnership with JetBlue
Airways was anticompetitive. (Image Credit: aa) Siding with the U.S. Department of Justice, the Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a trial judge’s ruling denied the appeal denied by AA and blocking the airlines’ “Northeast Alliance,”. The AA and JetBlue deal which