In American Airlines Inc. v. Travelport Ltd., Northern District of Texas Judge Terry R. Means dismissed Travelport Ltd.’s counterclaims against American Airlines Inc., ruling that the fare data distributor lacked standing to bring the antitrust allegations because it had not suffered direct antitrust injury from the alleged behavior, in American Airlines’ suit over an alleged plot to keep it out of the airline booking business. The court held that Travelport lacked standing to bring the claims because the decrease in price competition hurts travel agents and passengers, and the strengthening of barriers of entry hurts other airlines, so the competitors in these markets are airlines, and the consumers are travel agents and passengers. Because Travelport is neither of these, its injury is indirect.