This paper examines the issue of market foreclosure by airline partnerships with antitrust immunity. Overlapping the … data on frequency of service and passenger volumes on nonstop routes on the transatlantic airline market with the … information on dynamics of airline partnerships, we find evidence consistent with the airlines operating under antitrust immunity …

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 … possible market foreclosure effects into account when assessing the competitive effects of antitrust immunity for airline …