Delta Wants to Bid for D.C. and Dallas Slots Reserved for Low-Cost Carriers
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Greedy, greedy, greedy. Keeping the bidding to low-cost carriers would indeed inject some competition into airports where it is at times sorely lacking, as well as protect consumers that the U.S. Justice Department said it was looking out for in the American/US Air lawsuit.
The whole idea behind that U.S. Department of Justice's intervention in the US Airways and American Airlines merger was to ensure that it wasn't anticompetitive, and to remove some barriers to entry for low cost carriers by forcing the two airlines to divest some slots.
But, now legacy carrier Delta Air Lines, one of the largest airlines in the world and itself the product of a merger between Delta and Northwest in 2008, is making a lot of noise, protesting that it should be allowed to be in on the
