{"id":225,"date":"2016-01-22T03:30:03","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T09:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=225"},"modified":"2016-02-15T18:19:33","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T00:19:33","slug":"united-airlines-passes-bombardier-goes-boeing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=225","title":{"rendered":"United Airlines passes on Bombardier, goes with Boeing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"yui_3_18_1_1_1453397067695_2491\">United Airlines announced\u00a0Thursday that it will buy 40 Boeing 737-700\u00a0aircraft that\u00a0can seat 126 people, and will be flown by United mainline pilots. This will help move some of the airlines capacity back under the scope of United Airlines, and out of the hands of the regional airlines\u00a0that are suffering from a severe\u00a0shortage of pilots. The announcement of the\u00a0$3.2 billion deal was a\u00a0blow to Bombardier, as they were\u00a0vying to\u00a0land the deal for their struggling CSeries program. Deliveries of the new Boeing jets are scheduled to begin in mid 2017.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-226\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/7377-300x105.jpg\" alt=\"7377\" width=\"611\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/7377-300x105.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/7377.jpg 698w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 611px) 100vw, 611px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Airlines announced\u00a0Thursday that it will buy 40 Boeing 737-700\u00a0aircraft that\u00a0can seat 126 people, and will be flown by United mainline pilots. This will help move some of the airlines capacity back under the scope of United Airlines, and out of the hands of the regional airlines\u00a0that are suffering from a severe\u00a0shortage of pilots. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-news","tag-united-airlines-boeing-737-737-700-bombardier-cseries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":496,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions\/496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}