{"id":95785513,"date":"2010-09-30T11:28:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T11:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/united-and-continental-airlines-merger-becomes-official-october-1\/"},"modified":"2010-09-30T11:28:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T11:28:00","slug":"united-and-continental-airlines-merger-becomes-official-october-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/united-and-continental-airlines-merger-becomes-official-october-1\/","title":{"rendered":"United and Continental Airlines Merger Becomes Official October 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<strong>What United planes will look like starting October 1<\/strong>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhile a lot of work still needs to be done before the merger between United and Continental Airlines is completed, today actually marks the &quot;last day&quot; for Continental Airlines as tomorrow the merger becomes official.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nStarting October 1, all planes for the two airlines will start receiving a fresh coast of paint to match the new theme for United (see image above). Workers for the newly combined airlines will also start showing off new attire at airports nationwide.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMeanwhile the &quot;Continental&quot; name will slowly fade into aviation history alongside such companies as Pan Am and Northwest.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; What United planes will look like starting October 1 &nbsp; While a lot of work still needs to be done before the merger between United and Continental Airlines is completed, today actually marks the &quot;last day&quot; for Continental Airlines as tomorrow the merger becomes official. &nbsp; Starting October 1, all planes for the two [&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-95785513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95785513","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=95785513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95785513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95785513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95785513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95785513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}