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We examine the issue of market foreclosure by airline partnerships with antitrust immunity. Overlapping data on frequency of service and passenger volumes on non-stop transatlantic routes with information on the dynamics of airline partnerships, we find evidence consistent with the airlines operating under antitrust immunity refusing to accept connecting passengers from the outside carriers at respective hub airports. Following the antitrust immunity, airlines outside the partnership reduce their traffic to the partner airlines' hub airports by 4.1-11.5 percent. We suggest regulators should take possible market foreclosure effects into account when assessing the competitive effects of antitrust immunity for airline alliances.
Author(s): Bilotkach V, Huschelrath K
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Review of Economics and Statistics
Year: 2013
Volume: 95
Issue: 4
Pages: 1368-1385
Print publication date: 20/07/2012
ISSN (print): 0034-6535
ISSN (electronic): 1530-9142
Publisher: MIT Press
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/REST_a_00308
DOI: 10.1162/REST_a_00308
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