American Airlines loses US appeal of ruling barring JetBlue alliance | U.S. & World

By Nate Raymond and David Shepardson

(Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court on Friday held that a trial judge correctly found that American Airlines’ now-scrapped U.S. Northeast partnership with JetBlue Airways violated federal antitrust law.

Siding with the U.S. Department of Justice, the Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a trial judge’s ruling…