{"id":287347,"date":"2025-09-19T14:50:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T04:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/closer-look-turkish-airlines-strategic-investment-air-europa\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T14:50:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T04:50:15","slug":"a-closer-look-at-turkish-airlines-strategic-investment-in-air-europa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=287347","title":{"rendered":"A Closer Look At Turkish Airlines&#8217; Strategic Investment In Air Europa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"52149\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/turkish-airlines\/\"  >Turkish Airlines<\/a><\/span> recently won a minority stake in Spanish airline Air Europa by accepting shared control of the company with the Hidalgo family, outmaneuvering <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255195\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/lufthansa\/\"  >Lufthansa<\/a><\/span> and <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255503\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/air-france-klm\/\"  >Air France-KLM<\/a><\/span>, both of which were seeking a path to control. This deal, which included around \u20ac300 million in convertible debt for a stake of roughly 25-27%, is relatively unusual for non-EU airlines but aligns with overarching European Union ownership rules and gives Turkish Airlines a strategic foothold on the Iberian Peninsula.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Industry consolidation in Europe continues.<\/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":[1631,396,476,121,10083],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-europa","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-european-union","category-subsidiary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287347","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=287347"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287744,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287347\/revisions\/287744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}