{"id":95785441,"date":"2010-10-29T10:47:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T10:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/british-airways-and-iberia-report-profit-gains\/"},"modified":"2010-10-29T10:47:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T10:47:00","slug":"british-airways-and-iberia-report-profit-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/british-airways-and-iberia-report-profit-gains\/","title":{"rendered":"British Airways and Iberia Report Profit Gains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n\n<\/div>\n<p align=\"center\">\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>BA and Iberia gain in latest quarter<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWith the merger of British Airways and Spain&#39;s Iberia Lineas Aereas de Espana scheduled to be completed by early 2011, the airlines announced positive news Friday that both would be reporting a profit for the latest quarter. &nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBA reported a net profit of $170.5 million in the six<br \/>\nmonths ending September 30. That is much better than the massive $346 million it lost the same time period a year<br \/>\nearlier.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIberia, meanwhile reported a third-quarter net profit of $103.1 million, which is also a much better outcome than the $25.5 million net loss it suffered last year.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702304155604575581501885990746.html\" target=\"_blank\"> WSJ <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; BA and Iberia gain in latest quarter &nbsp; With the merger of British Airways and Spain&#39;s Iberia Lineas Aereas de Espana scheduled to be completed by early 2011, the airlines announced positive news Friday that both would be reporting a profit for the latest quarter. &nbsp; &nbsp; BA reported a net profit of [&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-95785441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95785441","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=95785441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95785441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95785441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95785441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95785441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}