April 01, 2013
American Airlines Inc. on Monday said it settled its claims Orbitz Worldwide Inc. conspired to thwart its efforts to compete for online flight booking business, bringing an end to more than two years of the airline's antitrust battles against ticket distributors.
March 13, 2013
American Airlines Inc. said Wednesday that it had settled its antitrust claims against airfare distributor Travelport Ltd., resolving its allegations that Travelport conspired with Orbitz Worldwide Inc. and other companies to block the now-bankrupt airline's attempt to create a competing online ticketing system.
February 21, 2013
Travelport Ltd. on Thursday told a New York bankruptcy judge that American Airlines Inc. had deliberately set a trap to block the travel services company from bringing new counterclaims in a Texas antitrust suit that the airline says will be trial-ready within months.
February 13, 2013
A Texas federal judge refused Tuesday to enforce an agreement that Orbitz Worldwide LLC claimed would have released it from a suit alleging that the company conspired with others to thwart American Airlines Inc.'s attempts to compete in the flight booking business.
February 12, 2013
Orbitz Worldwide LLC on Tuesday asked a Texas federal judge to enforce an agreement it said releases it from American Airlines Inc.'s antitrust suit alleging a conspiracy to block its competing online ticketing system, while the airline argued it never reached a binding settlement with Orbitz.
October 23, 2012
A new judge will preside as American Airlines Inc. begins its antitrust trial Wednesday in Texas state court against Sabre Inc. alleging the ticket distributor conspired to block it from launching a competing service and holds an anti-competitive monopoly.
August 29, 2012
American Airlines Inc. can continue with its antitrust suit alleging Sabre Holdings Corp., Travelport Ltd. and an Orbitz Worldwide Inc. affiliate schemed to block it from the airline booking market, a Texas federal judge said in an order made public Tuesday.
August 16, 2012
A Texas federal judge on Thursday dismissed Travelport Ltd.'s counterclaims against bankrupt American Airlines Inc., ruling that the fare data distributor lacked standing to bring the antitrust allegations in the airline's suit over an alleged plot keep it out of the airline booking business.
November 22, 2011
A Texas federal court on Monday dismissed Orbitz Worldwide LLC from American Airlines Inc.'s antitrust lawsuit claiming it was the victim of a plot to keep it from the airline booking business, in a sealed ruling that drew victory cries from the remaining defendants and the airline.
October 06, 2011
The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation on Thursday denied Sabre Inc.'s bid to consolidate in Texas federal court two suits accusing the company of monopolizing the airline booking business, ruling Sabre had not demonstrated a need to centralize the litigation.