{"id":95785209,"date":"2011-02-03T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/lan-airlines-and-tam-merger-on-hold-due-to-antitrust-concerns\/"},"modified":"2014-08-05T08:00:49","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T08:00:49","slug":"lan-airlines-and-tam-merger-on-hold-due-to-antitrust-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/lan-airlines-and-tam-merger-on-hold-due-to-antitrust-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"LAN Airlines and TAM Merger on Hold Due to Antitrust Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"The planned merger between LAN and TAM airlines has been&lt;br \/&gt;\nplaced on hold\" src=\"\/miles-away\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2011\/2\/LANimage001.jpg\" alt=\"The&lt;br \/&gt;\nplanned merger between LAN and TAM airlines has been placed on hold\" width=\"450\" height=\"340\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The planned merger of LAN and TAM airlines has been put on hold <\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A merger between two of South America\u2019s largest airlines has been put on hold by a Chilean court over concerns that it would put a stranglehold on competition.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Chile\u2019s LAN Airlines had announced a merger with Brazil\u2019s TAM in August and the two hoped to complete their unification by October 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However, a consumer group recently filed a complaint and an antitrust court has agreed to hear the case.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The court process could take anywhere from six months to a year, according to the consumer group which filed the complaint.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If the merger were to be approved, the resulting mega-airline would service 115 destinations in 23 countries and combine a workforce of nearly 40,000 employees.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: AP <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The planned merger of LAN and TAM airlines has been put on hold &nbsp; A merger between two of South America\u2019s largest airlines has been put on hold by a Chilean court over concerns that it would put a stranglehold on competition. &nbsp; Chile\u2019s LAN Airlines had announced a merger with Brazil\u2019s TAM in [&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-95785209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95785209","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=95785209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95785209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97168630,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95785209\/revisions\/97168630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95785209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95785209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95785209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}