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- Title: Spirit Airlines
- Author : United States Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 15, 2005
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 106 KB
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Plaintiff Spirit Airlines, Inc. appeals from the district courts final order granting summary judgment to the Defendant Northwest Airlines, Inc. on Plaintiffs claims of monopolization and attempted monopolization under Section 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act, 15 U.S.C. ร§ 2. Spirit alleged that Northwest engaged in predatory pricing and other predatory tactics in the leisure passenger airline markets for the Detroit-Boston and Detroit-Philadelphia routes. In sum, the district court found that Spirits proof had not established predatory pricing by Northwest in these markets. Specifically, the district court rejected Spirits definition of the relevant market as limited to low fare or leisure passengers and adopted Northwests market definition of all passengers on these routes. With this conclusion, the district court found that Northwests total revenues exceeded its total costs for these routes. Moreover, the district court opined that even if the low fare or leisure passenger market were the appropriate market, Northwests expert proof demonstrated that Northwests total revenues still exceeded its relevant costs. The district court deemed Spirits expert proof and analysis of Northwests costs and revenue to be implausible. Given these conclusions, the district court deemed it unnecessary to decide Spirits other predatory practices claims.