{"id":711608,"date":"2010-04-07T18:26:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T22:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/mega-merger-between-united-airlines-and-american-reportedly-in-the-works-2010-4"},"modified":"2010-04-07T18:26:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T22:26:00","slug":"mega-merger-between-us-airways-and-united-airlines-reportedly-in-the-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/711608","title":{"rendered":"Mega Merger Between US Airways And United Airlines Reportedly In The Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; Shares of US Airways and the parent of United Airlines rose in after-hours trading after The New York Times reported that the carriers are in merger talks.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Article Related Media --><\/p>\n<p>The newspaper&#8217;s DealBook blog cites people briefed on the discussions. Those people said no transaction is expected to be announced for at least several weeks, and that talks could still collapse.<\/p>\n<p>Spokespersons for both airlines say they don&#8217;t comment on rumors.<\/p>\n<p>Shares of United parent UAL Corp. rose $1.57, or 8.3 percent, to $20.52 in late trading. US Airways Group Inc. rose $1.78, or 26.1 percent, to $8.60.<\/p>\n<p>The CEOs of both airlines have been outspoken about their willingness to be involved in some type of merger.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/mega-merger-between-united-airlines-and-american-reportedly-in-the-works-2010-4#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/RwiGWMFPQqE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; Shares of US Airways and the parent of United Airlines rose in after-hours trading after The New York Times reported that the carriers are in merger talks. The newspaper&#8217;s DealBook blog cites people briefed on the discussions. Those people said no transaction is expected to be announced for at least several [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3506,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-711608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Z7y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3506"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}