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Article: AIRLINES: BRITISH AIRWAYS/AMERICAN AIRLINES ALLIANCE RAISES PROBLEMS
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- Transport Europe
- Article date:
- September 20, 1996
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Summary: The proposed cooperation pact between British Airways and American Airlines has o ther airlines operating on these trans-Atlantic routes concerned about restrictio ns on competition on this strategic market. Six American companies asked Presiden t Clinton on July 24 to suspend recently-resumed negotiations with the United Kin gdom on an open sky Agreement between the two countries.
Simultaneously, a number of official inquiries into the two airlines' plans for an Agreement are under wa y. Not only must the deal be approved by American and British competition authori ties, and pass muster with the European Commission in the same way as other air A greements, ...