This article is part of a Chronicle. See more from this Chronicle Jan Brueckner, Stef Proost, Sep 15, 2009 Prohibitions on cross-border airline mergers preclude full integration of U.S. and foreign carriers, but a grant of antitrust immunity (“ATI”) allows substantial cooperation between a U.S. airline and its foreign alliance partners. Immunity allows collaboration in […]

In this issue: Antitrust & Transportation   Don Baker, Bill Mullins, Sep 15, 2009 Railroad Antitrust Reform – A Train to Nowhere? Will the removal of the few antitrust exemptions currently granted to the rail industry be likely to result in the type of antitrust relief required to curtail what the shippers view as an abuse […]

This article is part of a Chronicle. See more from this Chronicle Daniel Kasper, Darin Lee, Sep 15, 2009 Any analysis of immunized airline alliances must begin by recognizing that, unlike most other global businesses, airlines are precluded by a host of laws and regulations in the United States and abroad from acquiring control of […]

This article is part of a Chronicle. See more from this Chronicle Chris Sagers, Sep 15, 2009 The single oldest and probably most convoluted story in American antitrust is its relationship with the railroads. Railroads were among the first business entities in the United States to be perceived as social problems in and of themselves, […]

This article is part of a Chronicle. See more from this Chronicle Don Baker, Bill Mullins, Sep 15, 2009 There is an obvious déjà vu quality in today’s loudly promoted “Railroad Antitrust Enforcement Act of 2009” bills that have been introduced by Senator Herbert Kohl (D-WI) (S. 146) and his Wisconsin colleague, Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin […]