{"id":852,"date":"2018-06-18T10:48:30","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T10:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elementor.frenify.net\/?p=852"},"modified":"2018-06-18T10:48:30","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T10:48:30","slug":"lufthansa-in-contact-with-norwegian-as-airlines-size-up-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/lufthansa-in-contact-with-norwegian-as-airlines-size-up-deals\/","title":{"rendered":"Lufthansa in contact with Norwegian as airlines size up deals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shares in Norwegian Air \u00a0jumped more than 10 percent on Monday following the comments by Lufthansa boss Carsten Spohr to Germany\u2019s Sueddeutsche Zeitung.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Europe, everyone is talking to everyone. There\u2019s a new wave of consolidation approaching. That means we are also in contact with Norwegian,\u201d Spohr was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"container_2dHIN dp-slot-inline_eUPBt\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Asked whether Norwegian would fit with the Lufthansa group, Spohr said: \u201cTakeovers are always a question of strategic value, the price and anti-trust. There are no easy answers.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"container_2dHIN dp-slot-inline_eUPBt\" data-ad-type=\"other\">\n<div id=\"dpslot_native_12356028_USKBN1JE0HT\" class=\"ad-container_20U2_\" data-google-query-id=\"CO7u2uWE3dsCFdWIGQodiCgMpw\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Norwegian reiterated on Monday that it had been approached by potential buyers and investors following an announcement in April that IAG (<span id=\"\u201dsymbol_ICAG.L_2\u201d\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/finance\/stocks\/overview?symbol=ICAG.L\">ICAG.L<\/a><\/span>) had taken a 4.6-percent stake in the carrier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese parties have expressed indicative and preliminary interest in share acquisitions, mergers, structured transactions, financing of the group and various forms of operational and financial cooperation,\u201d a spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNorwegian believes that interest from several parties demonstrates the attractiveness of our business,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shares in Norwegian Air \u00a0jumped more than 10 percent on Monday following the comments by Lufthansa boss Carsten Spohr to Germany\u2019s Sueddeutsche Zeitung. \u201cIn Europe, everyone is talking to everyone. There\u2019s a new wave of consolidation approaching. That means we are also in contact with Norwegian,\u201d Spohr was quoted as saying. Asked whether Norwegian would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4,6,9,10,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-2","category-business-of-sport","category-companies","category-entrepreneurship","category-global-trade","category-market-data","category-technology-of-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}