{"id":95785518,"date":"2010-09-28T14:18:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T14:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/judge-allows-united-continental-merger-deal-to-proceed\/"},"modified":"2010-09-28T14:18:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T14:18:00","slug":"judge-allows-united-continental-merger-deal-to-proceed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/judge-allows-united-continental-merger-deal-to-proceed\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Allows United-Continental Merger Deal to Proceed"},"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\/2010\/9\/united_ca.jpg\" alt=\"The United Airlines-Continental Airlines merger is set to be completed by the end of 2010\" title=\"The United Airlines-Continental Airlines merger is set to be completed by the end of 2010\" width=\"450\" height=\"340\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p align=\"center\">\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>United-Continental merger is set to be completed in 2010<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe United Airlines and Continental Airlines merger process seems to be rolling along full steam ahead with news today that a federal judge said he will not block the marriage between the two carriers on antitrust grounds.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe merger of United and Continental, which would make it the world&#39;s largest airline, had some people concerned, with a group of San Francisco based travelers looking to sue. The concerned customers claimed the deal would raise airfares. They asked a judge to step in and block the deal from proceeding.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBu the judge did not see any cause for concern and ruled against the travelers on Monday.&nbsp; The Justic Department already stated they have no antitrust objections to the deal.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/m.apnews.com\/ap\/db_16045\/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=wfBYWy1N\" target=\"_blank\"> Associated Press<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; United-Continental merger is set to be completed in 2010 &nbsp; The United Airlines and Continental Airlines merger process seems to be rolling along full steam ahead with news today that a federal judge said he will not block the marriage between the two carriers on antitrust grounds. &nbsp; The merger of United and [&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-95785518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95785518","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=95785518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95785518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95785518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95785518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95785518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}