Originally Posted by
flyingmed
Although it seems like it would be anti competitive IAG has a few of its airlines competing against each other especially in Spain between Vueling and Iberia. If Norwegian would keep its own AOC and operating certificate it would have to be viewed as a seperate company from BA and therefore should not be anti competitive. Similar situation happening in different industries, just look at what News Corp and Rupert Murdoch have acquired.
competition authorities dont look at arcane bits of paper like AOC's... they follow the money and control structure