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JetBlue_A220-300JetBlue today shared remarks by antitrust expert Glenn Pomerantz discussing how the U.S. Department of Justice (the “DOJ”) and courts will likely view the proposed combination of JetBlue-Spirit.
Mr. Pomerantz is one of the few private lawyers who has been asked by the DOJ and numerous State Attorneys General to serve as lead trial counsel for the government in high-profile merger challenges, including the AT&T-T-Mobile merger. He was engaged by JetBlue to work alongside its antitrust counsel to examine how the combination would be reviewed by regulators.
In the video, Mr. Pomerantz notes that the DOJ will strongly consider the benefits that the “JetBlue Effect” will bring to all stakeholders: “In fact, the DOJ calls the ‘JetBlue Effect’ uniquely disruptive and beneficial to passengers.”
Mr. Pomerantz concludes, “If you’re worried about the passengers who really want an ultra-low-cost alternative, those alternatives will be there. There are plenty of other ultra-low-cost carriers, who will enter and take over a route of Spirit’s if that route is profitable. Frontier is out there…and there are Allegiant and Sun Country and some recent entrants as well. So, everyone’s going to win if JetBlue and Spirit merge.”