{"id":1239,"date":"2005-04-08T00:45:12","date_gmt":"2005-04-08T00:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1239"},"modified":"2005-04-08T00:45:12","modified_gmt":"2005-04-08T00:45:12","slug":"air_wisconsin_l","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1239","title":{"rendered":"Air Wisconsin Loses United Airlines\/Express Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/bym\/news\/apr05\/316204.asp\">Thomas Daykin<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>United Airlines &#8220;was trying to put the squeeze on Air Wisconsin&#8221; when it put that business up for bid, said Michael Boyd, president of Boyd Group Inc., an aviation industry consulting firm in Evergreen, Colo.<br \/>\nHe said United&#8217;s executives probably figured they could force Air Wisconsin to cut the prices it charges United Airlines to keep that business.<br \/>\n&#8220;Air Wisconsin ruined that little game&#8221; when it reached the agreement to provide financing to US Airways in return for getting a piece of its regional carrier business, Boyd said.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think United might, perhaps be squeezing too hard (perhaps they have no choice).  Having recently flown through Chicago, it seems that American&#8217;s regional jet operation is less chaotic&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Daykin: United Airlines &#8220;was trying to put the squeeze on Air Wisconsin&#8221; when it put that business up for bid, said Michael Boyd, president of Boyd Group Inc., an aviation industry consulting firm in Evergreen, Colo. He said United&#8217;s executives probably figured they could force Air Wisconsin to cut the prices it charges United [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239"}],"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=1239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}