ASSOCIATED PRESS: An inquiry by the US government is investigating whether airlines worked together to gouge customers.
ASSOCIATED PRESS: An inquiry by the US government is investigating whether airlines worked together to gouge customers.
The civil antitrust investigation by the Justice Department appears to focus on whether airlines illegally signaled to one another how quickly they would add new flights, routes and extra seats.
A letter received Tuesday by major U.S. carriers demands copies of all communications the airlines had with each other, Wall Street analysts and major shareholders about their plans for passenger-carrying capacity, or “the undesirability of your company or any other airline increasing capacity.”
