{"id":94691716,"date":"2011-05-02T15:42:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T15:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/southwest-airlines-and-airtran-airways-celebrate-merger\/"},"modified":"2011-05-02T15:42:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T15:42:00","slug":"southwest-airlines-and-airtran-airways-celebrate-merger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/southwest-airlines-and-airtran-airways-celebrate-merger\/","title":{"rendered":"Southwest Airlines and AirTran Airways Celebrate Merger"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n\n<\/div>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<strong>AirTran to No Longer Serve DFW Airport <\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\nRecently merged airlines, Southwest Airlines and AirTran Airways, will be celebrating with events Monday in Dallas and Atlanta in honor of the partnership.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>\nSouthwest paid $1.4 billion for AirTran.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>\nThe new found acquisition will allow Southwest to reach over 100 destinations.Though it indends to end AirTran&#39;s run Dallas\/Fort Worth Airport.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>\nExecutives from both airlines will partake in a &ldquo;ceremonial&rdquo; signing of the dotted line in front of two Boeing 737 airplanes at Southwest&rsquo;s hanger in Love Field airport.&nbsp; Once completed, they will board an AirTran flight for more happenings in Atlanta.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSource: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/wichita\/news\/2011\/05\/02\/southwest-airtran-celebrating.html\" target=\"_blank\">BizJournals <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AirTran to No Longer Serve DFW Airport Recently merged airlines, Southwest Airlines and AirTran Airways, will be celebrating with events Monday in Dallas and Atlanta in honor of the partnership. Southwest paid $1.4 billion for AirTran. The new found acquisition will allow Southwest to reach over 100 destinations.Though it indends to end AirTran&#39;s run Dallas\/Fort [&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-94691716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94691716","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=94691716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94691716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94691716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94691716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94691716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}