(Reuters) – JetBlue Airways and Spirit Airlines said late Friday they will appeal a judge’s ruling this week blocking the air carriers’ planned tie-up.
U.S. District Judge William Young in Boston on Tuesday said JetBlue’s planned $3.8 billion acquisition of ultra-low-cost carrier Spirit was anticompetitive and would harm consumers, ruling in favor of the Justice Department and six states. The airlines filed a notice late Friday that they will appeal his ruling to the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
(Reporting by David Shepardson; editing by Jonathan Oatis)
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