{"id":561474,"date":"2023-03-09T10:04:05","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T04:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=561474"},"modified":"2023-03-09T12:18:24","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T06:48:24","slug":"us-justice-department-sues-to-block-jetblue-spirit-airline-merger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/us-justice-department-sues-to-block-jetblue-spirit-airline-merger\/","title":{"rendered":"US Justice Department sues to block JetBlue-Spirit airline merger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Justice Department on Tuesday sued to block the $3.8 billion JetBlue-Spirit airline merger, saying that the combination harmed consumers and violated antitrust law.<\/p>\n<p>Removing Spirit from the travel market would &#8220;eliminate the unique competition&#8221; it provides as a low-cost carrier, and &#8220;leave tens of millions of travelers to face higher fares and fewer options,&#8221; said the department in its complaint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Justice Department on Tuesday sued to block the $3.8 billion JetBlue-Spirit airline merger, saying that the combination harmed consumers and violated antitrust law. Removing Spirit from the travel market would &#8220;eliminate the unique competition&#8221; it provides as a low-cost carrier, and &#8220;leave tens of millions of travelers to face higher fares and fewer options,&#8221; said the department in its complaint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}