ACCC final decision rejects Air Canada/Air New Zealand commercial alliance

On 27 January 2009 the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) issued its final decision and a statement announcing that it was rejecting the application from Air Canada and Air New Zealand to enter into a close commercial alliance (see previous post).

Air New Zealand has released a statement NEW reacting to the decision.

Reports on the decision have appeared in:

• the NZ Herald
• the Sydney Morning Herald NEW

Robert Stockdill, author of the Flying High NEW weblog for Business Spectator, has been a critic of both the draft and final ACCC decisions in posts dated 25 November 2008 NEW and 28 January 2009 NEW.