| Europe clears world's biggest airline merger -continued | |||||
| The green light from Brussels competition enforcers has still to be matched by US anti-trust authorities, who turned down a United-US Airways deal in 2001, with backing also required from shareholders of the two companies.
Five weeks after being formally notified, the European Commission "concluded that the transaction would not significantly impede effective competition" in Europe, where the US airlines service a combined 35 destinations. |
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| Source: EUbusiness | |||||