{"id":2503,"date":"2010-02-08T17:02:29","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T15:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/?p=2503"},"modified":"2022-09-28T20:09:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T19:09:49","slug":"japan-air-favors-american-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/japan-air-favors-american-alliance\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Air Favors American Alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Japan<\/a>Japan Airlines Corp. is leaning toward maintaining its longstanding alliance with AMR Corp.’s American Airlines instead of teaming up with Delta Air Lines Inc., according to a person familiar with the matter.<\/strong><\/p>\n

American’s bid to keep JAL has gained traction recently at least in part because of growing concerns a JAL-Delta partnership would trigger antitrust concerns in the U.S., added people close to the protracted tug-of-war for Asia’s largest carrier.<\/p>\n

Sticking with American would represent a reversal from just a few weeks ago, when the Japanese government was in favor of a joint venture with Delta, which leapfrogged American to become the largest U.S. carrier in 2008 after merging with Northwest Airlines.<\/p>\n

No final decision has been made, according to people familiar with the matter. An official decision on a partner is slated to be made this week or early next week, according to Masaru Onishi, the new president of JAL.<\/p>\n

JAL’s new chairman, Kazuo Inamori, started from scratch in deciding whether Asia’s biggest carrier by revenue should ally itself with Fort Worth, Texas-based American or Atlanta-based Delta in a joint venture on trans-Pacific flights, according to one person close to the deliberations.<\/p>\n

Mr. Inamori, who took over as JAL’s chairman Feb. 1, has had conversations with officials in Washington focusing on whether a Delta-JAL tie-up would receive antitrust immunity, this person added.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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