{"id":94691847,"date":"2011-03-23T14:21:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T14:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/airtran-shareholders-approve-southwest-airlines-merger\/"},"modified":"2011-03-23T14:21:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-23T14:21:00","slug":"airtran-shareholders-approve-southwest-airlines-merger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/airtran-shareholders-approve-southwest-airlines-merger\/","title":{"rendered":"AirTran Shareholders Approve Southwest Airlines Merger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/miles-away\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2011\/3\/AirTran_Airways.jpg\" alt=\"AirTran shareholders have approved a merger with Southwest Airlines\n(Image: Wikimedia)\" title=\"AirTran shareholders have approved a merger with Southwest \nAirlines (Image: Wikimedia)\" width=\"450\" height=\"340\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<strong>Shareholder approval moves the airlines closer to completing a merger <\/strong>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nAirTran Airways shareholders have approved a cash-and-stock-buyout offer from Southwest Airlines, according to a statement released today by AirTran.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe vote puts the airlines one step closer to completing a merger that was initially agreed upon in September.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe merger will give Southwest access to Atlanta&rsquo;s Hartsfield Jackson International Airport for the first time and control of AirTran&rsquo;s 138-jet fleet. &nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Source: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-03-23\/airtran-s-shareholders-approve-acquisition-by-southwest-1-.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Shareholder approval moves the airlines closer to completing a merger &nbsp; AirTran Airways shareholders have approved a cash-and-stock-buyout offer from Southwest Airlines, according to a statement released today by AirTran. &nbsp; The vote puts the airlines one step closer to completing a merger that was initially agreed upon in September. &nbsp; The merger will [&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-94691847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94691847","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=94691847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94691847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94691847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94691847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94691847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}