{"id":276486,"date":"2013-09-12T14:32:19","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T19:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=276486"},"modified":"2013-09-13T08:26:49","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T13:26:49","slug":"judge-approves-airline-merger-but-lawsuit-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=276486","title":{"rendered":"Judge Approves Airline Merger, but Lawsuit Looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=276487\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-276487\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/09\/thumb_american-airlines-logo.jpg\" alt=\"thumb_american-airlines-logo\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-276487\" \/><\/a>FORT WORTH (AP) \u2014 A federal judge is approving American Airlines&#8217; plan to emerge from bankruptcy protection and merge with US Airways, although the airlines must still resolve their lawsuit with the federal government, which is trying to block the merger. A trial over that lawsuit is scheduled for November. Today&#8217;s ruling by federal bankruptcy Judge Sean Lane in New York provides at least the perception that the merger is still moving forward for Fort Worth-based American.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FORT WORTH (AP) \u2014 A federal judge is approving American Airlines&#8217; plan to emerge from bankruptcy protection and merge with US Airways, although the airlines must still resolve their lawsuit with the federal government, which is trying to block the merger. A trial over that lawsuit is scheduled for November. Today&#8217;s ruling by federal bankruptcy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=276486\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Judge Approves Airline Merger, but Lawsuit Looms<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-08 14:19:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=276486"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276526,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276486\/revisions\/276526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=276486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=276486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=276486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}