US Airways and corporate seat booking giant Sabre Holdings Corp. made final pitches Thursday to the second Manhattan federal jury to hear their 11-year-old antitrust dispute, dueling over whether Sabre used restrictive contracts to squash competition in the business travel industry.
Before being acquired by American Airlines, US Airways sued Sabre for anticompetitive conduct under the Sherman Act. The case begins trial later this spring, and the district court’s.
US Airways sues Sabre for anticompetitive conduct under the Sherman Act in the southern district of New York, alleging that its contract terms required US Airways to offer the same content through Sabre’s GDS as it offers through other booking channels,
US Airways Inc. can mostly continue its 11-year-old antitrust claims against travel-planning giant Sabre, after a New York federal judge dismissed only some allegations as time-barred while crediting the American Airlines subsidiary's assertions of market power and injury.
Robert Isom will take the reins at American as CEO on March 31 after Doug Parker, who pieced American together through blockbuster deals to form the world’s largest airline by traffic, retires.