{"id":155472,"date":"2011-09-29T20:22:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T20:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bd6fdd85-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2011-09-29T20:22:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T20:22:00","slug":"bd6fdd96-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/bd6fdd96-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta Air Lines welcomes China Airlines to SkyTeam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delta Air Lines welcomed China Airlines yesterday as an official member of the SkyTeam global airline alliance, further enhancing the alliance\u2019s industry leading position in the region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDelta is delighted and honoured to welcome China Airlines into the SkyTeam alliance,\u201d said Ed Bastian, Delta\u2019s president, who attended the official joining ceremony in Taipei alongside representatives from fellow SkyTeam member airlines. \u201cThe addition of this well respected airline complements Delta\u2019s existing service to Taiwan and with China Airline\u2019s strong hub in Taipei our customers will benefit from improved access to one of the world\u2019s fastest-growing regions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Headquartered in Taipei, China Airlines is the largest airline of Taiwan, home to one of the world\u2019s most dynamic technology-driven economies.  The China Airlines network will complement those of Guangzhou-based China Southern and Shanghai-based China Eastern, both current SkyTeam members. China Airlines\u2019 route network covers Asia, Europe, North America and Oceania, and will help customers connect to flights of SkyTeam partners worldwide. [B][I](Delta)[\/I][\/B]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delta Air Lines welcomed China Airlines yesterday as an official member of the SkyTeam global airline alliance, further enhancing the alliance\u2019s industry leading position in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}