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JetBlue Seeks Partnerships to Compete With Larger Airlines
Feb 23, 2025
JetBlue is reportedly discussing potential partnerships with multiple airlines after judges blocked its planned purchase of Spirit Airlines in 2024 and its partnership with American Airlines in 2023.
“If we find a deal that’s accretive, we’ll absolutely do it,” JetBlue President Marty St. George said Wednesday (Feb. 19) at a Barclays conference, CNBC reported.
The airline aims to form partnerships and deals in order to grow and compete with larger carriers, according to the report.
Speaking at the conference about JetBlue’s previous partnership with American Airlines, St. George said: “When I look at the benefits that we got from the partnership we had, I think that’s something that’s attractive for us,” Reuters reported Wednesday.
The Justice Department under the Biden Administration won a court battle to block that deal, arguing that the partnership hurt consumers by reducing competition, per the report.
Then-Attorney General Merrick B. Garland said in a November Department of Justice press release: “Today’s decision is a hard-won victory for the millions of Americans who count on competition between airlines to fly affordably, whether to visit family, go on vacation or travel for business. The airline industry — like every industry — must comply with the antitrust laws that protect consumers and prohibit anticompetitive coordination.”
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