{"id":294,"date":"2010-04-30T09:28:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T17:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.rev.mydaye.com\/?p=294"},"modified":"2010-04-30T09:28:12","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T17:28:12","slug":"continental-and-united-close-in-on-merger-deal-business-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/?p=294","title":{"rendered":"Continental and United close in on merger deal | Business | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"initial-letter\"><p>Continental and United close in on merger deal<\/p>\n<p>I heard the first of this on <a title=\"CNBC - 'First in Business Worldwide'\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">CNBC <\/a>this morning and then this posting.\u00a0 Neither company&#8217;s website <a title=\"United Airlines\" href=\"http:\/\/www.united.com\" target=\"_blank\">United Airlines<\/a> or <a title=\"Continental Airlines\" href=\"http:\/\/www.continental.com\" target=\"_blank\">Continental Airlines<\/a> has any information about the merger.\u00a0 But I kind of saw the writing on the wall when Continental joined the <a title=\"Star Alliance - 'The Way the Earth Connects'\" href=\"http:\/\/www.staralliance.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">Star Alliance<\/a> last year based on the previous engagement talks from a few years ago that time with <a title=\"US Airways\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usairways.com\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">USAirways<\/a> which joined the Star Alliance shortly prior to merger talks.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/2010\/apr\/30\/continental-united-merger\">Continental and United close in on merger deal | Business | The Guardian<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There are times when I would like to see the merger but I know it would mean higher airfares because there are fewer and fewer domestic airlines each providing less value for the higher tickets (no meals, shitty service, and a 8-oz. cup of soda down from a can that we used to get).<\/p>\n<p>Oh well&#8230;, until <a title=\"US Gov't Nav page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gov.com\/branch\/legislative\/\" target=\"_blank\">Congress<\/a> can allows international airlines to fly domestic flights we&#8217;ll probably be stuck with some very, expensive, limited domestic airlines.\u00a0 For a country touting competition why can&#8217;t we open this limitation?<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continental and United close in on merger deal I heard the first of this on CNBC this morning and then this posting.\u00a0 Neither company&#8217;s website United Airlines or Continental Airlines has any information about the merger.\u00a0 But I kind of saw the writing on the wall when Continental joined the Star Alliance last year based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}