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Delta Execs Fight Bid To Testify At American Airlines Antitrust Trial

By  |  September 22, 2022

Two senior executives at Delta Air Lines Inc on Wednesday urged a Boston federal judge to block a bid by American Airlines Group Inc to force them to testify at an upcoming antitrust trial over an alliance between American and JetBlue.

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    Lawyers for Delta president Glen Hauenstein, the second-highest-ranking executive at the airline, and Joseph Esposito, senior vice president of Delta’s network planning, argued in a court filing that testifying would pose a “heavy and unwarranted burden” in the US Justice Department’s civil antitrust lawsuit against American over its arrangement with JetBlue.

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