For reasons thar may never be publicly acknowledged, the US Department of Justice came dangerously close to being exposed as a crowd-pleaser with staggeringly little fundamental knowledge of antitrust law when it hovered on the brink of taking American Airlines and US Airways to trial over their merger proposal. In the end, DOJ blinked because it had to. It settled with the airlines, avoiding what surely would have been a public debacle for the government had the trial it sought gone to court.
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