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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9720

8 August 2008
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/competition
European Commission approves acquisition of Northwest Airlines by Delta Airlines

Brussels, 07/08/2008 (Agence Europe) - On 6 August, the European Commission cleared the proposed acquisition of Northwest Airlines ("NWA") by Delta Airlines, both U.S. carriers. From the European perspective, the activities of the parties overlap in the provision of scheduled air passenger and cargo transport between Europe and the U.S. For air passenger transport, the Commission took into account the fact that Delta and Northwest are both SkyTeam members as are Air France, KLM, CSA Czech...