What will happen to AirTran distribution on online travel agency websites once its merger and integration with Southwest Airlines gets under way in earnest?
That question comes to the fore following yesterday’s announcement that the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division closed the books on its Hart-Scott-Rodino Act review, clearing a path to merger.
Southwest says it expects the merger transaction to close on May 2, 2011, and one of the next steps will be to secure a Federal Aviation Administration single operating certificate, which could happen in the first quarter of 2012.
Read the full story at: http://www.tnooz.com/2011/04/27/news/distribution-questions-loom-following-us-approval-of-southwest-airtran-merger/
