{"id":3364,"date":"2010-08-30T10:28:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T10:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/doj-approves-united-airlines-continental-merger\/"},"modified":"2010-08-30T10:28:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T10:28:00","slug":"doj-approves-united-airlines-continental-merger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/doj-approves-united-airlines-continental-merger\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ Approves United Airlines, Continental Merger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/miles-away\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2010\/8\/unitedairlines.jpg\" alt=\"United\nAirlines and Continental merger approved by DOJ\" title=\"United Airlines and Continental merger approved by DOJ\" width=\"450\" height=\"340\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<strong>United-Continental merger to close October 1st <\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe planned merger between United Airlines and Continental Airlines has been reviewed by the U.S. Justice Department and has been approved.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nGlenn Tilton, Chief Executive of United, said the merger is expected to close by October 1st. &ldquo;We are pleased to have achieved this critical milestone,&rdquo; Tilton said in a statement.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnnounced in May, the merger is still under review by state attorneys general. Both United and Continental have planned September 17 stockholder meetings to vote for approval of the deal.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe companies have displayed the merger as the coming together of &ldquo;the two most complementary networks of any U.S. carriers, with minimal domestic and no international route overlaps.&rdquo;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTogether the airlines fly 144 million passengers per year, flying to 370 destinations\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Source:<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/doj-signs-off-on-united-continental-merger-2010-08-28\" target=\"_blank\"> MarketWatch <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; United-Continental merger to close October 1st &nbsp; The planned merger between United Airlines and Continental Airlines has been reviewed by the U.S. Justice Department and has been approved. &nbsp; &nbsp; Glenn Tilton, Chief Executive of United, said the merger is expected to close by October 1st. &ldquo;We are pleased to have achieved this critical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}