Originally Posted by
CANAM
Regardless of Southwest's bid, I really doubt the government would allow the aquistition to occur. I think there will be too many anti-competition claims made by UAL and others. In short, my money is still on Republic.
Yet CO and UA just got antitrust immunity. I don't think they'd have much of a case considering that F9 and WN overlap on a lot of routes out of Denver. What WN will most likely do is scale some of that flying back where it makes sense. If they were taking over an airline that covered all the routes they didn't, then I could see it being a monopoly issue.