{"id":4973,"date":"2010-04-02T11:37:58","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T08:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=4973"},"modified":"2010-04-02T11:38:25","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T08:38:25","slug":"british-airways-iberia-merge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/british-airways-iberia-merge\/","title":{"rendered":"British Airways and Iberia will merge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/british-airlines-iberia-merge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4974\" title=\"British Airways and Iberia will merge\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/british-airlines-iberia-merge-280x210.jpg\" alt=\"British Airways and Iberia will merge\" width=\"196\" height=\"147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/british-airlines-iberia-merge-280x210.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/british-airlines-iberia-merge.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/a>British Airways and Spain&#8217;s airline Iberia approved Thursday a preliminary agreement on a planned merger that would create a European aviation giant.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nThe new airline would have 419 aircraft and fly to 205 destinations, the companies said in a joint statement, ending months of negotiations on a merger to better compete in the recession-hit industry.<\/p>\n<p>British Airlines chief executive Willie Walsh said: &#8220;The merger will create a strong European airline well able to compete in the 21st century.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And Willie Walsh added that &#8220;Both airlines will retain their brands and heritage while achieving significant synergies as a combined force.&#8221;<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 7)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Airways and Spain&#8217;s airline Iberia approved Thursday a preliminary agreement on a planned merger that would create a European aviation giant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,51,17,118,117],"tags":[6286,6288,507,6283,6284,514,511,6287],"class_list":["post-4973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-economy","category-europe","category-hot","category-travel","tag-airline-iberia","tag-british-airlines-chief-executive-willie-walsh","tag-british-airways","tag-british-airways-iberia","tag-british-airways-iberia-merge","tag-strike-british-airways","tag-willie-walsh","tag-willie-walsh-british-airlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}