United Continental Holdings Inc. and Delta Air Lines Inc. are among U.S. carriers that will gain as Republicans take control of the House, scrapping proposals to limit the outsourcing of maintenance work and to subject global alliances to antitrust enforcement.

“Those types of issues will go away,” said David Schaffer, a consultant in Vienna, Va., and a former House aviation subcommittee Republican counsel. Under Democratic control, lawmakers had approved provisions restricting the airlines’ overseas activities.

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