The U.S. Justice Department goes to court Tuesday to ask a judge to order American Airlines AAL-Q and JetBlue Airways JBLU-Q to scrap a partnership in the U.S. Northeast in a high-stakes fight that follows painful court losses for the government.
The trial, expected to last about three weeks, takes place at a time when critics say prior administrations allowed the U.S. aviation industry to become too consolidated, leading to high prices and sometimes poor treatment of consumers.
The government…