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Comment: Korean Air's ready-made Asiana deal remedy will test EU's thinking on airline mergers

By Nicholas Hirst, Natalie McNelis and Jenny Lee
  • 26 Jan 2023 14:25
  • 26 Jan 2023 19:52
Korean Air Lines’ bid to take over its closest rival Asiana is the latest airline merger to test the European Commission’s evolving approach to consolidation in the sector.
Two attempts by airlines to merge in recent years — Air Canada’s takeover of Transat and IAG’s swoop for Air Europa — both

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Jenny Lee

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Jenny joined MLex’s Seoul bureau in 2021 as a correspondent focusing on competition law and data privacy and security. Jenny received a Master’s degree from Northwestern University’s renowned Medill School of Journalism and worked for a number of news organizations in the US, including the Associated Press Television News, McClatchy and Voice of America, where she worked for almost three years in Washington DC. She returned to her native South Korea in 2019 as a reporter for Wired Korea.

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