{"id":1064,"date":"2005-02-19T00:00:03","date_gmt":"2005-02-19T00:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2005-02-19T00:00:03","modified_gmt":"2005-02-19T00:00:03","slug":"fascinating_gam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1064","title":{"rendered":"Fascinating Game of Poker: Air Wisconsin Invests in US Airways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Appleton based regional carrier <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airwis.com\/\">Air Wisconsin<\/a> (which operates much of United Express&#8217;s routes) has <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news?hl=en&amp;ned=us&amp;q=%22air+wisconsin%22+%22US+Airways%22&amp;btnG=Search+News\">participated in a $125M investment round<\/a> with US Airways.   Fascinating game of poker as Air Wisconsin renegotiates it&#8217;s deal with United and a rather interesting gamble.  I wish them luck!<br \/>\nKeep in mind that Air Wisconsin currently has one (!) customer &#8211; United Airlines.   United is shopping around for a better deal on regional flights (in effect, squeezing Air Wisconsin).   Air Wisconsin does not, or did not have much leverage, other than price.   This deal creates a different playing field for Air Wisconsin and United&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Appleton based regional carrier Air Wisconsin (which operates much of United Express&#8217;s routes) has participated in a $125M investment round with US Airways. Fascinating game of poker as Air Wisconsin renegotiates it&#8217;s deal with United and a rather interesting gamble. I wish them luck! Keep in mind that Air Wisconsin currently has one (!) customer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}