{"id":170997,"date":"2025-01-29T17:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T07:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/iag-buy-tap-portugal-eu-commission-approval\/"},"modified":"2025-01-29T17:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T07:00:14","slug":"would-an-iag-buy-of-tap-air-portugal-get-eu-commission-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=170997","title":{"rendered":"Would An IAG Buy Of TAP Air Portugal Get EU Commission Approval?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Portuguese government is once again looking to privatize or partly privatize the country&#8217;s national carrier,             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255379\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/tap-air-portugal\/\"  >TAP Air Portugal<\/a><\/span>. It seems that the International Consolidated Airlines Group or IAG (which includes British Airways and Iberia), is         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2039038\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/iag-reiterates-interest-tap-air-portugal-majority-stake\/\" >considering purchasing the Atlantic airline<\/a><\/span>. However, the European Commission recently refused the group&#8217;s proposed takeover of             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255425\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/air-europa\/\"  >Air Europa<\/a><\/span> (Spain&#8217;s third-largest airline), so will it approve IAG taking over TAP?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time will tell if the EU Commission will approve IAG&#8217;s takeover of TAP, however, IAG is seen as the frontrunner to take it over.<\/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":[396,120,567,3436,688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-europe","category-guides","category-iag","category-tap-air-portugal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170997","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=170997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170998,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170997\/revisions\/170998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}