Bilotkach, Volodymyr; Hüschelrath, Kai - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 95 (2013) 4, pp. 1368-1385
We examine the issue of market foreclosure by airline partnerships with antitrust immunity. Overlapping data on … 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 …