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.Siding with the U.

American Airlines lost its appeal to revive an alliance with JetBlue that collapsed after lawsuits succeeded in declaring it anticompetitive, a judge ruled

An appeals panel has upheld a U.S. District Court decision that dismantled the Northeast Alliance (NEA) between American Airlines and JetBlue Airways on the grounds that it would have “substantially” diminished domestic competition. Under the original May 2023 ruling, the two carriers were barred...

In May 2023 a federal judge rejected a partnership between American and JetBlue. Today, its lost value is hurting both airlines. But the partnership is not quite dead.