{"id":57593,"date":"2015-07-29T21:23:16","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T13:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=57593"},"modified":"2015-09-19T12:04:32","modified_gmt":"2015-09-19T04:04:32","slug":"delta-air-lines-invests-in-china-eastern-airlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/07\/29\/delta-air-lines-invests-in-china-eastern-airlines\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta Air Lines invests in China Eastern Airlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11464\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11464\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/China.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11464\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/China-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"ShutterStock\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/China-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/China.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11464\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ShutterStock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>BEIJING &#8212; U.S.-based Delta Air Lines bought 3.55 percent of shares of China Eastern Airlines worth USD 450 million on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The investment is part of a series of cooperation agreements signed by the two airlines, which both belong to SkyTeam Alliance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Delta&#8217;s investment will help us promote mixed ownership and speed up our overseas expansion,&#8221; said Liu Shaoyong, chairman of China Eastern Airlines.<\/p>\n<p>China is the second-largest market for travel to the United States and is expected to take the lead in the next few years, according to Richard Anderson, CEO of Delta Air Lines.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: small\">The two airlines have signed codeshare agreements to operate 30 U.S. domestic flights, 43 Chinese domestic flights and seven trans-Pacific flights. (PNA\/Xinhua)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING &#8212; U.S.-based Delta Air Lines bought 3.55 percent of shares of China Eastern Airlines worth USD 450 million on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-travel","mauthors-xinhua-news-agency-via-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}