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<p>The UK has a competitive aviation market, which operates predominantly in the private
sector. Airports invest in their infrastructure to attract passengers and airlines,
while airlines are well placed to deliver services to their customers by responding
to demand for routes. Whilst we recognise the importance of maintaining a thriving
and competitive aviation sector in the UK to deliver connectivity, levelling up and
the supporting the Union, it is for airlines to determine the routes they operate
based on their own assessment on whether routes are commercially viable.</p><p>Under
competition law, responsibility for investigating individual competition issues falls
to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the UK’s competition authority. As
an independent authority, the CMA has discretion to investigate competition cases
which, according to its prioritisation principles, it considers most appropriate.
The CMA also has powers to conduct detailed examinations of why particular markets
may not be working well, and decide what remedial action is appropriate. Concerns
about market competition can be submitted to the CMA.</p>
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