Originally Posted by
goldeneye
TIUI would be blocked from buying TC by the EU. Too much of a monopoly.
However would Lufthansa be barred from buying TC? In Germany that would lead to LH having too great a share of that domestic market, but it doesn't appear to have stopped them gobbling up the competition so far.
I suspect that the UK CMA would look upon a merger of TUI and TC in a similar vein as the way they did when squashing the ASDA / Sainsburys merger; and I think for same reasons they'd be quite right to do so.