The three major global airline alliances aren't for everyone, including several airlines represented at this week's Phoenix Aviation Symposium. Representatives from those carriers pointed to the costs associated with alliance participation, tech challenges and other concerns.
An American Airlines spokesperson said yesterday's request to the U.S. Department of Transportation by the carrier and four oneworld members to "dismiss their application" for multilateral antitrust immunity was a "temporary" move that should be viewed as a "procedural technicality." But there may be more going on here.
