{"id":99160,"date":"2024-08-02T03:54:58","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T17:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/iag-abandons-plans-buy-air-europa\/"},"modified":"2024-08-02T03:54:58","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T17:54:58","slug":"iag-abandons-air-europa-buy-after-finding-no-work-around-to-regulator-objections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=99160","title":{"rendered":"IAG Abandons Air Europa Buy After Finding No Work Around To Regulator Objections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                            The International Airlines Group (IAG), which owns                                     <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255104\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/aer-lingus\/\"  ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static0.simpleflyingimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/aer_lingus_icon.png\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>Aer Lingus<\/a><\/span>                                        , <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/british-airways\/\">British Airways<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/iberia\/\">Iberia<\/a>, among others, has announced it will abandon plans to acquire Air Europa, citing regulatory obstacles. In a statement, the company said that the deal no longer made financial sense. IAG already owns 20% of <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/air-europa\/\">Air Europa<\/a>, acquired back in August 2022. The plan was to take on the remaining 80%.                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IAG tells Simple Flying that it believes its proposals to the European Commission were strong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1,"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":[1631,396,595,1950],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-europa","category-aircraft","category-aviation-news","category-international-airlines-group"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99160","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=99160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99161,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99160\/revisions\/99161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}