Would Open Transatlantic Routes To Greater
Competition
In what the US Department of Transportation calls an effort to
enhance competition and provide lower fares for consumers flying
internationally, on Wednesday the agency proposed to withdraw
antitrust immunity from the tariff-coordination meetings held by
the International Air Transport Association (IATA) that discuss and
set passenger fares and cargo rates for US-Europe and US-Australia
flights.
Some Say Manufacturer Could Share Late Planemaker's Fate
We've said it before... it's not easy being Airbus right now. In
the past two years the European consortium has gone from being at
the top of the heap... to facing a heap of problems with its A350
and A380 programs.
In November 2005, the DoT issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
(NPRM) on Actual Control of U.S. Air Carriers in which DOT proposed
to allow foreign participation in various commercial aspects of a
U.S. carrier, provided that the foreign participants are citizens
of a country which has an Open Skies agreement with the United
States and affords U.S. citizens similar opportunities to
participate in its carriers.
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