{"id":41187,"date":"2010-08-14T01:37:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-14T01:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/2010\/08\/14\/brazilian-airline-tam-plans-to-merge-with-chiles-lan-2\/"},"modified":"2010-08-14T01:37:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-14T01:37:00","slug":"brazilian-airline-tam-plans-to-merge-with-chiles-lan-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2010\/08\/14\/brazilian-airline-tam-plans-to-merge-with-chiles-lan-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian Airline TAM Plans to Merge with Chile&#8217;s LAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arian AMU; font-size: 10.5pt\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 34px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">Two major South American airlines are planning to merge and create the biggest carrier in the region, reports BBC News.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">Brazil&#8217;s largest airline TAM Linhas Aereas is looking to join with Chile&#8217;s LAN as demand for air travel in Latin America continues to grow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">TAM said a combined airline would fly to 115 destinations in 23 countries, with a 40,000-strong workforce.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">LAN confirmed the agreement, which it said was non-binding. The new carrier would be called Latam Airlines Group.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">If the tie-up goes ahead it would be headed by LAN boss Enrique Cueto while TAM deputy chair Mauricio Rolim would be company chair.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">TAM is a member of the Star Alliance group of airlines, which includes BMI, Lufthansa, SAS and Air China.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">Meanwhile LAN is a member of the Oneworld airline alliance, which includes Iberia, British Airways, Qantas and JAL.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two major South American airlines are planning to merge and create the biggest carrier in the region.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[10571,10570,10563,10572,10564],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}