{"id":103282,"date":"2020-11-21T20:55:16","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T20:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/?p=103282"},"modified":"2020-11-21T20:55:20","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T20:55:20","slug":"delta-westjet-scrap-planned-joint-venture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/en\/2020\/11\/delta-westjet-scrap-planned-joint-venture.html","title":{"rendered":"Delta, WestJet scrap planned joint venture."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Delta Air Lines<\/strong> and Canada’s WestJet<\/strong> said late on Friday they had scrapped a proposed U.S.-Canada joint venture after the U.S. government demanded changes the airlines insisted were “unreasonable and unacceptable”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See also:<\/strong> Delta will continue to block the middle seats until March 2021.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last month, the U.S. Transportation Department as part of its tentative antitrust immunity approval said it would require the carriers to remove Swoop, an ultra low-cost carrier affiliate of WestJet, from the alliance, and divest 16 takeoff and landing slots at New York\u2019s LaGuardia Airport, Reuters<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The airlines said in a filing that the U.S. demands were \u201carbitrary and capricious\u201d especially the slot divestitures. They had argued the alliance would \u201coptimize aircraft utilization, enhance schedules, and lower costs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See also: <\/strong>Airbus delivers the first A220 assembled in the U.S. to Delta.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The airlines said in a joint statement they remain committed to developing a joint venture \u201cbut in the meantime will explore deepening the alliance.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Delta-WestJet joint venture would have had a combined 27% share of scheduled air carrier transborder capacity, while the dominant carrier, Air Canada, has 45%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Canada, with 38 million people, is the second-largest U.S. international passenger air market after Mexico, with Toronto flights accounting for over 50% of transborder air travel demand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

U.S.-Canada transborder flight capacity has grown 15% over the last five years to 39 million seats annually, but passenger traffic has plummeted sharply in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The airlines\u2019 application had been pending with U.S. officials for more than two years. The Canadian Competition Bureau conducted its own review and granted an unconditional \u201cno action\u201d letter in June 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

U.S. air carriers had urged slot divestitures at LaGuardia, noting American Airlines, Delta and United Air Lines control 83% of all slots, with Delta controlling 45% of flights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WestJet and Delta said losing slots would deprive them \u201cof critical operating rights at one of the most important strategic hubs in Delta\u2019s global network at a time when Delta is investing billions of dollars of its own capital in a comprehensive facilities improvement project at this airport.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They would be forced, the airlines added, \u201cto sell these strategic corporate assets during a global pandemic that has inflicted an unprecedented crisis on this industry, virtually ensuring that they would be sold at a fire sale price.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Lincoln Feast and Jacqueline Wong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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