DoJ probes US airline capacity planning

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The US Department of Justice is back in aviation. This time, it’s investigating the US passenger airlines, concerned that they have been signalling to each other about capacity. Surprisingly, given IATA’s strict rules (in cargo at least), the DoJ says that the airlines spoke publicly about capacity discipline at the IATA AGM in Miami last month, which was, according to one senator “highly troubling”. They have also been accused of cosying up to Wall St, talking about capacity discipline to ...