“If the Justice Department defines Southwest and JetBlue out of the market, they’ve got to have good documentary and economic evidence to support that allegation,” said Grunes, the former Justice Department lawyer. Baer, the U.S. antitrust chief, “would not allow it to be in the complaint otherwise.”
Southwest Seen Overlooked as U.S. Seeks to Block AMR Deal
By Mary Schlangenstein
August 23, 2013 12:01 AM EDT