Originally Posted by AirbusMonitor

Further, the "Bond-McCaskill Amendment" has no application to the transaction between Republic Airways Holdings, Inc. and Midwest Air Group, Inc. That provision applies only to "covered transactions", defined as "a transaction for the combination of multiple air carriers into a single air carrier." No such transaction occurred here. Republic Airways Holdings, Inc. is not a carrier so its acquisition of Midwest Air Group, Inc. (likewise not a carrier) is not a covered transaction. Midwest Airlines was not combined with any other carrier owned by Republic Airways Holdings. Rather, Midwest Airlines permanently ceased operation in November 2009 and later surrendered its operating certificate to the relevant regulatory bodies.