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\nAfter more than 15 months of negotiations, British Airways<\/strong> \n \n<\/p>\n \nAlthough it will take another year or so for the deal to be \n \n<\/p>\n \nBritish Airways Chief Executive Willie Walsh, who will head \n \n<\/p>\n \nNot everyone is thrilled by the move. A certain eccentric low-cost carrier based out of Ireland called the merger, "two drunks trying to prop each other up." Ouch.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n \n \n<\/p>\n \nSource: The Wall Street Journal and picture courtesy of Flickr member spotterjohnsen<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An aviation Alliance has been formed between British Airways and Iberia After more than 15 months of negotiations, British Airways and Spain’s Iberia have come to terms on a merger that will make the combined companies one of world’s largest airlines. With competition from the low-cost carriers breathing down their necks, the new […]<\/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-4384601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4384601","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=4384601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4384601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4384601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4384601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4384601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nand Spain’s Iberia
\n<\/strong>have come to terms on a merger that will make the combined companies one of world’s
\nlargest airlines. With competition from the low-cost carriers breathing down their necks, the new tag team
\nin the sky will now boast annual revenue of nearly $20 billion!\n<\/p>\n
\ncompleted, this surely changes the way millions of passengers will fly from now
\non. In 2008, British Airways and Iberia
\ncarried a combined 62 million passengers on 419 airplanes.\n<\/p>\n
\nthe new company, predicts monumental increases in profit. Walsh sees this as a
\nvery smart move to make in such a dreadful economy that has hurt the airline
\nindustry big time. Cost savings and increased revenue will definitely help this
\nnew team thrive in today’s super competitive airline market.\n<\/p>\n