{"id":547303,"date":"2010-04-29T16:54:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T20:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/united-and-continental-to-announce-merger-monday-wsj-2010-4"},"modified":"2010-04-29T16:54:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T20:54:00","slug":"united-and-continental-to-announce-mega-merger-monday-uaua-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/547303","title":{"rendered":"United And Continental To Announce Mega-Merger Monday (UAUA, CA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4b473d070000000000009d34\/united-airlines.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"united airlines\" \/><\/p>\n<p>United Airlines and Continental could announce a merger Monday to become the world&#8217;s biggest airline, <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704302304575214501554530976.html?mod=e2tw\">the WSJ reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The combined airline would be based in Chicago and retain United&#8217;s brand, according to the report. <em>(Not sure if that means it&#8217;ll also retain the Continental brand, or only use United.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704302304575214501554530976.html?mod=e2tw\">WSJ<\/a>: The United board is meeting Friday, while Continental&#8217;s board is  meeting Friday and Sunday to discuss the deal, these people said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">These people cautioned that negotiations could fall apart at the last  minute as they did in 2008, when Continental backed away. But after a  hiccup over pricing the transaction, the talks appear to be on track,  they said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">United is in a much different position than two years ago. Earlier  this week, United narrowed its first-quarter loss to $82 million,  compared with a year-earlier loss of $382 million. Revenue rose by 15%,  to $4.2 billion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/united-and-continental-to-announce-merger-monday-wsj-2010-4#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/mega-merger-between-united-airlines-and-american-reportedly-in-the-works-2010-4\">Mega Merger Between US Airways And United Airlines Reportedly In The Works<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/most-luxurious-train-rides-2010-3\">15 Luxurious Train Trips That Will Make You Swear Off Cars Forever<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/awesome-foreign-airports-2009-11\">10 Awesome Foreign Airports That Make Ours Look Awful<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/piRrXhBMzx8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Airlines and Continental could announce a merger Monday to become the world&#8217;s biggest airline, the WSJ reports. The combined airline would be based in Chicago and retain United&#8217;s brand, according to the report. (Not sure if that means it&#8217;ll also retain the Continental brand, or only use United.) WSJ: The United board is meeting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}