{"id":8529,"date":"2016-12-08T09:02:30","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T17:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/alaska-airlines-settles-lawsuit-against-virgin-america-deal\/"},"modified":"2016-12-08T09:02:30","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T17:02:30","slug":"alaska-airlines-settles-lawsuit-against-virgin-america-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/alaska-airlines-settles-lawsuit-against-virgin-america-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska Airlines settles lawsuit against Virgin America deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 <\/strong>Alaska Airlines has removed its last major hurdle to buying Virgin America.<\/p>\n<p>Alaska said Wednesday it agreed to settle a private antitrust lawsuit that threatened to hold up its $2.6 billion purchase of Virgin America.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle-based Alaska did not disclose terms of the settlement, which came days before a trial on the lawsuit was scheduled to begin in federal district court in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>The settlement also came a day after the U.S. Justice Department approved the purchase, but only after Alaska agreed to scale back a partnership it has with American Airlines on some routes.<\/p>\n<p>The deal will make Alaska the nation\u2019s fifth-biggest airline, leapfrogging over JetBlue Airways Corp., which also tried to buy Virgin America.<\/p>\n<p>Alaska said it hopes to complete the acquisition soon but gave no date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 Alaska Airlines has removed its last major hurdle to buying Virgin America. Alaska said Wednesday it agreed to settle a private antitrust lawsuit that threatened to hold up its $2.6 billion purchase of Virgin America. Seattle-based Alaska did not disclose terms of the settlement, which came days before a trial on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-8529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8529"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=8529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}