Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines will still need approval from the Transportation Department to complete the deal
The Justice Department's period to compete its investigation into the deal expired Tuesday without a lawsuit seeking to block the deal.has cleared the U.S. Justice Department after the period for antitrust regulators to finish an investigation of the deal ended without a lawsuit to block the deal, eight months after the two carriers announced a
The two airlines now have to win approval from the U.S. Transportation Department before the deal closes. It wasn't immediately clear how long that process will take."The time period for the U.S. Department of Justice to complete its regulatory investigation of the proposed combination of Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines under the Act has expired," Alaska Airlines said in a statement."This is a significant milestone in the process to join our airlines.
Hawaiian has posted net losses in all but one quarter since the start of 2020, but executives have recently said booking trends are improving. Hawaiian's shares were up almost 12% this quarter, as of Monday, while most other airlines' shares have dropped. The two airlines said in December when they announced the deal that they would keep each carrier's brand but operate under a single platform, combining into a more than 360-airplane fleet covering over 130 destinations.
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