Nov 8 (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Friday

rejected a bid by American Airlines ( AAL ) to overturn a

judge's decision that sided with the U.S. Department of Justice

and declared that its now-scrapped U.S. Northeast partnership

with JetBlue Airways ( JBLU ) was anticompetitive.

The Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court Appeals agreed with

the lower-court judge that the airlines' "Northeast Alliance"

that allowed the two carriers to coordinate flights and pool

revenue violated federal antitrust law.

(Reporting by Nate Raymond in New York)