US government attorneys on 7 October argued in federal court that American Airlines feared being “pushed out” of Boston by JetBlue Airways prior to the companies partnering under their Northeast Alliance (NEA).
“We had been downsizing our network [at Boston]. I was trying to build a case to network planning that we need help, or we are going to be pushed out,” American’s regional sales director Paul Swartz wrote in a 2019 email to American’s network planning executives.
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