{"id":408092,"date":"2026-04-18T09:02:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T23:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/american-airlines-dismiss-uniteds-merger-pitch-negativity-competition\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T09:02:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T23:02:49","slug":"american-airlines-dismisses-uniteds-merger-pitch-citing-competition-negativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=408092","title":{"rendered":"American Airlines Dismisses United\u2019s Merger Pitch, Citing Competition Negativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254833\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/american-airlines\/\"  >American Airlines<\/a><\/span>is speaking out over talks regarding a potential merger with <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"128657\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>United Airlines<\/span><\/span>. On Friday, the legacy carrier issued a statement dismissing any discussions involving a combination of the two airlines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The carrier is instead focused on positioning itself to &#8220;win for the long term.&#8221;<\/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":[396,476,636,604,4414,1027,49,536],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-american-airlines","category-chicago-ohare-international-airport","category-competition","category-merger","category-passenger","category-united-airlines"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408092","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=408092"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408098,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408092\/revisions\/408098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=408092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=408092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=408092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}