UNITED STATES v. JETBLUE AIRWAYS CORP.

CIVIL ACTION NO. 23-10511-WGY.

712 F.Supp.3d 109 (2024)

UNITED STATES of America, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, District of Columbia, State of California, State of Maryland, State of New Jersey, State of New York, and State of North Carolina, Plaintiffs, v. JETBLUE AIRWAYS CORPORATION, and Spirit Airlines, Inc., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.

Signed January 16, 2024.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward William Duffy, Arianna Markel, Brian Hanna, Craig Louis Briskin, Don P. Amlin, James Moore, III, John R. Doidge, Katherine Celeste Speegle, Maisie A. Baldwin, Michael Battaglia, Michael DeRita, Michelle Livingston, Patricia C. Corcoran, Sarah V. Riblet, Aaron Teitelbaum, Brendan Sepulveda, Daniel A. Loevinsohn, John M. Briggs, John DiMarco, Garrett Windle, John R. Thornburgh, II, U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, Washington, DC, Washington, DC, Stephanie Elise Pearl, District of Columbia, Washington, DC, for Plaintiff United States of America.

Robert B. McNary, Pro Hac Vice, California Department of Justice, Los Angeles, CA, William T. Matlack, Daniel H. Leff, Massachusetts Attorney General's Office, Boston, MA, for Plaintiff Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

C. William Margrabe, Estefania Yulianny Torres Paez, Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia, Public Advocacy Division, Washington, DC, Daniel H. Leff, Massachusetts Attorney General's Office, Boston, MA, for Plaintiff District of Columbia.

Morgan J. Feder, Pro Hac Vice, Amy Elizabeth McFarlane, Christopher Michael D'Angelo, Olga Kogan, Elinor Hoffmann, Office of the New York Attorney General, New York, NY, Daniel H. Leff, Massachusetts Attorney General's Office, Boston, MA, for Plaintiff State of New York.

Jamie L. Miller, Robert B. McNary, Pro Hac Vice, Komal Patel, California Department of Justice Office of the Attorney General, Los Angeles, CA, Daniel H. Leff, Massachusetts Attorney General's Office, Boston, MA, for Plaintiff State of California.

Daniel H. Leff, Massachusetts Attorney General's Office, Boston, MA, Jessica Vance Sutton, North Carolina Department of Justice, Raleigh, NC, for Plaintiff State of North Carolina.

Byron Warren, Gary Honick, Maryland Attorney Generals Office, Baltimore, MD, Daniel H. Leff, Massachusetts Attorney General's Office, Boston, MA, for Plaintiff State of Maryland.

Ana Atta-Alla, Bryan Steven Sanchez, The New Jersey Office of the Attorney General, Newark, NJ, Daniel H. Leff, Massachusetts Attorney General's Office, Boston, MA, for Plaintiff State of New Jersey.

Beatriz Mejia, Cooley LLP, San Francisco, CA, Daniel P. Culley, Pro Hac Vice, David I. Gelfand, Pro Hac Vice, Ryan Shores, Pro Hac Vice, Charles Balaan, Isabel Tuz, Jeremy Newman, Matt Rosenthal, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, Washington, DC, Ethan Glass, Matt Nguyen, Pro Hac Vice, Cooley LLP — Library Business Litigation, Washington, DC, Ryan Leske, Pro Hac Vice, Brian Hauser, Jacob Kotler, Michael Mitchell, Samuel Guggenheimer, Shearman & Sterling LLP, Washington, DC, Deepti Bansal, Cooley LLP — Library Business/Antitrust, Washington, DC, Jessica K. Delbaum, Pro Hac Vice, Leila Rashida Siddiky, Pro Hac Vice, Richard F. Schwed, Pro Hac Vice, David Garfinkel, Grace Song, Harlan Rosenson, Sheyla D. Soriano, Elizabeth Robinson, Shearman & Sterling LLP, New York, NY, Joseph M. Kay, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, New York, NY, Joyce Victoria Rodriguez-Luna, Cooley LLP, New York, NY, Noni Nelson, New York, NY, Elizabeth M. Wright, Zachary Hafer, Zachary Sisko, Cooley LLP, Boston, MA, Laura Rodgers, Rumson, NJ, Michael Tetreault, Pro Hac Vice, Cooley LLP, San Diego, CA, Rachel Mossman Zieminski, Shearman & Sterling LLP, Dallas, TX, Tina Asgharian, Shearman & Sterling LLP, London, UK, for Defendant JetBlue Airways Corporation.

Andrew C. Finch, Pro Hac Vice, Eyitayo St. Matthew-Daniel, Jay Cohen, Pro Hac Vice, Jackson Cory Yates, Jared Nagley, Kate Wald, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, NY, Meredith Dearborn, Pro Hac Vice, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, San Francisco, CA, Thomas Rucker, Pro Hac Vice, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, Washington, DC, John Calhoun, Samuel Newland Rudman, Choate, Hall & Stewart, Boston, MA, for Defendant Spirit Airlines, Inc.

Holly Ellen Oliva-Van Horsten, Kathleen M. Phillips, Phillips, Richard & Rind, P.A., Miami, FL, Peter J. Perroni, Nolan Perroni, PC, N Chelmsford, MA, for Amicus Transport Workers Union Local 570, AFL-CIO.

Glenn A. MacKinlay, Dean Elwell, McCarter & English, LLP, Boston, MA, for Amicus Travelers United Inc.

Jamie Roy Lynn, Baker Botts LLP, Washington, DC, for Amicus Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO.


FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

YOUNG, JUDGE of the UNITED STATES1

I. INTRODUCTION...122

II. FINDINGS OF FACT...128

A. The Industry...123

B. The Defendants...127

1. JetBlue...127

2. Spirit...129

C. The Relevant Airports...131

1. Orlando, Florida — Orlando(MCO) and Sanford(SFB)...131

2. San Juan, Puerto Rico — San Juan(SJU)...132

3. Miami...

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