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Ski industry giants conspired to inflate resort prices by sharing proprietary data, lawsuit claims
The lawsuit says the companies shared confidential pricing data and used it to raise season-pass prices about 40% and day-ticket prices 55% since 2020.
A new class action lawsuit claims that ski industry giants colluded in an anticompetitive scheme to fix prices at destination resorts. Vail Resorts, Alterra Mountain Co., Powdr Corp., Boyne Resorts, the nonprofit National Ski Areas Association and the data firm RRS Associates Inc. are named as defendants in the lawsuit brought by three skiers in the Denver U.S. District Court on Aug. 5. The complaint alleges that the four ski companies, which ow…