{"id":6790,"date":"2019-11-22T00:51:13","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T06:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=6790"},"modified":"2019-12-05T17:41:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T23:41:17","slug":"u-s-grants-final-approval-for-expanded-delta-air-france-virgin-klm-joint-venture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=6790","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Grants Final Approval for Expanded Delta, Air France, Virgin, KLM Joint Venture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\">WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao on Thursday granted final approval for an expanded trans-Atlantic joint venture for Delta Air Lines Inc &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/quote\/DAL?p=DAL&amp;.tsrc=fin-srch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DAL<\/a>&gt;, Air France KLM SA &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/quote\/AFLYY?p=AFLYY&amp;.tsrc=fin-srch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AFLYY<\/a>&gt; and Virgin Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\">Reuters first reported Chao&#8217;s planned tentative approval of the agreement in August. The expanded joint venture replaces two previously approved arrangements in the U.S.-United Kingdom and U.S.-Continental Europe markets and will allow for additional benefits such as more options on European flights, Chao said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\">(Reporting by David Shepardson; editing by Jonathan Oatis)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6791\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/1c75ae41be2990998256fc5ce8970fc8.jpg\" alt=\"1c75ae41be2990998256fc5ce8970fc8\" width=\"799\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/1c75ae41be2990998256fc5ce8970fc8.jpg 799w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/1c75ae41be2990998256fc5ce8970fc8-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/1c75ae41be2990998256fc5ce8970fc8-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 799px) 100vw, 799px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Delta Air Lines flight is pushed put of its gate at the airport in Salt Lake City<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao on Thursday granted final approval for an expanded trans-Atlantic joint venture for Delta Air Lines Inc <DAL>, Air France KLM SA <AFLYY> and Virgin Atlantic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6791,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[797,89,5637,8222,5992,7929,2203,5500,4957,5676,8651,1397,868,1103],"tags":[3974,539,420,92,3005,2374,160,5456,4293,2286,795,5851,630,246,4295,1767,1180,4634,3451,660,482,207,5541,7944,2000,2933,130,4796,4747,412,4063,1288,4795,4294,3535,2373,1691,1658,631,444,2001,512,1013],"class_list":["post-6790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-airline-news","category-aviation-news","category-business-news","category-consumer-news","category-economic-news","category-european-news","category-finance-news","category-frequent-flyer-news","category-global-politics","category-international-news","category-joint-venture-news","category-stock-news","category-transportation-news","category-travel-news","tag-additional","tag-air","tag-airline","tag-airport","tag-approval","tag-atlantic","tag-aviation","tag-benefits","tag-chao","tag-city","tag-continental","tag-d-c","tag-dal","tag-delta","tag-elaine","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-expanded","tag-final","tag-flight","tag-flights","tag-france","tag-gate","tag-grants","tag-joint","tag-kingdom","tag-klm","tag-lake","tag-markets","tag-news","tag-options","tag-reuters","tag-salt","tag-secretary","tag-statement","tag-trans","tag-transport","tag-transportation","tag-u-s","tag-united","tag-venture","tag-virgin","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6790","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=6790"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6933,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6790\/revisions\/6933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}