Delta calls DOT’s anticipated termination of JCA “ineffectual”

Delta Air Lines has spoken out against the US Government’s Department of Transport (DOT) in a filing on February 9 with the government branch. It follows the DOT’s proposal to not renew the pending Delta and Aeromexico’s antitrust immunity application on January 26, and effectively terminating the joint cooperation agreement (JCA). “The Department’s tentative decision to terminate the approval currently underpinning the JCA is premature, punitive, misdirected, and ineffectual as a matter of aviation policy,” said Delta’s filing. It said that the DOT decision was “in retaliation” to the large changes made by the Government of Mexico (GOM) to Mexico