{"id":441250,"date":"2026-05-29T19:47:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T09:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-american-united-merger-impact-us-aviation\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T19:47:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T09:47:27","slug":"how-an-american-united-merger-would-have-shaken-up-us-aviation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=441250","title":{"rendered":"How An American-United Merger Would Have Shaken Up US Aviation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The history of the airline industry in the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"128663\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states\/\"  >United States<\/a><\/span> has been dominated by a series of high-profile mergers, such as Northwest Airlines into Delta Air Lines, Continental Airlines into United Airlines, and US Airways into American Airlines. More recently, Alaska Airlines&#8217; merger with Hawaiian Airlines has also been dominating the headlines. However, most recently, a failed merger has been in the news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With American unwilling to join forces with United, the latter has ruled out future mergers.<\/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":[396,476,636,536,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-441250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-american-airlines","category-united-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441250","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=441250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":441251,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441250\/revisions\/441251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=441250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=441250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=441250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}