In re Delta/Airtran Baggage Fee Antitrust Litigation

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Timothy C. Batten, Sr., United States District Judge

The factual allegations giving rise to this multidistriet litigation have been described at length in the Court’s prior orders and will be restated here only briefly. In December 2008, Defendants AirTran Airways, Inc. and Air-*678Tran Holdings, Inc. (collectively, “AirTran”)1 and Defendant Delta Air Lines, Inc. began charging a fee to passengers for a first checked bag. Plaintiffs filed thirteen class-action complaints alleging that this first-bag fee was the product of a price-fixing conspiracy between Defendants that violated § 1 of the…