{"id":97167836,"date":"2010-04-15T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T15:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/continental-airlines-and-united-resume-merger-talks\/"},"modified":"2023-03-03T10:24:20","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T10:24:20","slug":"continental-airlines-and-united-resume-merger-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/continental-airlines-and-united-resume-merger-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Continental Airlines and United Resume Merger Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<strong>Continental may merge with United<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In what is starting to look like a love triangle in the sky, Continental Airlines announced that it is in merger talks with United Airlines. It was just last week that reports surfaced of a possible United-US Airways partnership.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg is reporting that the initial conversations between both sides have been kept confidential and that Continental became interested after hearing of the possible merger of United and US Airways.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If United and Continental were to merge, it would create the world&#8217;s largest airline, knocking Delta from that top spot. Both airlines discussed combining companies two years ago, but Continental decided during those talks to stay independent.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601103&amp;sid=aZvt2U79StAE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Bloomberg <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Image: Wikimedia <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Continental may merge with United &nbsp; In what is starting to look like a love triangle in the sky, Continental Airlines announced that it is in merger talks with United Airlines. It was just last week that reports surfaced of a possible United-US Airways partnership. &nbsp; Bloomberg is reporting that the initial conversations between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":97218021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97167836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97167836","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=97167836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97167836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97218022,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97167836\/revisions\/97218022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97218021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97167836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97167836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97167836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}