Allowing price coordination on competitive routes would encourage airlines to vie for profitable business by improving service rather than cutting back on it.

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"For almost 10 years, the cartelists carried out the most harmful anti-competitive practices, including price fixing, market sharing, customer allocation, capacity and output coordination and exchanges of commercial sensitive information", the commission said.

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