{"id":631096,"date":"2024-01-24T09:36:19","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T04:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=631096"},"modified":"2024-01-24T10:38:11","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T05:08:11","slug":"lufthansas-ita-airways-deal-may-reduce-competition-eu-regulators-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/lufthansas-ita-airways-deal-may-reduce-competition-eu-regulators-warn\/","title":{"rendered":"Lufthansa&#8217;s ITA Airways deal may reduce competition, EU regulators warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EU antitrust regulators on Tuesday opened an in-depth investigation into Lufthansa&#8217;s bid for a minority stake in Italian state-owned ITA Airways, saying the deal may reduce competition in flights to and from Italy. <\/p>\n<p>Lufthansa wants to acquire a 41% stake in ITA for 325 million euros ($353.2 million) as part of a capital increase. <\/p>\n<p>The European Commission said the deal may reduce competition in the market for passenger air transport services on several short-haul and long-haul routes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EU antitrust regulators on Tuesday opened an in-depth investigation into Lufthansa&#8217;s bid for a minority stake in Italian state-owned ITA Airways, saying the deal may reduce competition in flights to and from Italy. Lufthansa wants to acquire a 41% stake in ITA for 325 million euros ($353.2 million) as part of a capital increase. The European Commission said the deal may reduce competition in the market for passenger air transport services on several short-haul and long-haul routes.<\/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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-631096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631096","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=631096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}