Originally Posted by
402Fanatic
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.
It's hard to say if route overlap is as important as some may think. It's more of an anti-competitition issue than route structure. Personally, I'm all for captialism and don't understand many of the federal court's decisions and reasoning.