{"id":107520,"date":"2024-08-14T06:41:12","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T20:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/alaska-hawaiian-airlines-merger-lawsuit-dismissed\/"},"modified":"2024-08-14T06:41:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T20:41:12","slug":"judge-dismisses-lawsuit-to-block-alaska-airlines-1-9-billion-hawaiian-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=107520","title":{"rendered":"Judge Dismisses Lawsuit to Block Alaska Airlines&#8217; $1.9 Billion Hawaiian Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                            A lawsuit intending to block                                     <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254956\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/alaska-airlines\/\"  >Alaska Airlines<\/a><\/span>                                        &#8216; planned acquisition of                                     <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255342\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/hawaiian-airlines\/\"  >Hawaiian Airlines<\/a><\/span>                                         was thrown out by a US judge on Monday. Passengers who filed the lawsuit reportedly argued that the nearly $2 billion merger would reduce the combined airlines route network and increase prices.                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of passengers attempted to sue the carriers due to fears that a merger would lessen competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1150,396,516,595,6962,4414,1026,719,1027,794,8110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acquisition","category-aircraft","category-alaska-airlines","category-aviation-news","category-brand","category-competition","category-hawaiian-airlines","category-lawsuit","category-merger","category-passengers","category-product"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107521,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107520\/revisions\/107521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}