Alaska Airlines CEO is confident that the merger with Hawaiian Airlines will take place

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Alaska Airlines CEO is confident that the merger with Hawaiian Airlines will take place

Alaska Airlines CEO Ben Minicucci said the court decision that blocked the Spirit-JetBlue merger increased the chances of the Alaska-Hawaiian Airlines merger being approved. “I think that's positive for us,” he said at the J.P. Morgan Industrials conference on Tuesday. In the Spirit-JetBlue ruling in January, U.S. District Court Judge William Young concluded that the law required him to analyze the competitive impact of the merger by road rather…