{"id":83,"date":"2013-02-14T22:31:14","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T22:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paddycompare.ie\/insurance-blog\/?p=83"},"modified":"2013-02-17T20:13:31","modified_gmt":"2013-02-17T20:13:31","slug":"ryanair-set-for-travel-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paddycompare.ie\/insurance-blog\/ryanair-set-for-travel-takeover\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryanair set for travel takeover?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ryanair is in the process of trying to convince the European Commission that a \u20ac694 million takeover of Aer Lingus would not lead to a monopoly of the Irish airline market.<\/p>\n<p>The acquisition of Aer Lingus has long been seen as a personal ambition of O&#8217;Leary&#8217;s, topping his transformation of a one-plane airline in 1985, into one of Europe&#8217;s largest with over 300.<\/p>\n<p>Aer Lingus currently operates 45 aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>The deal would see Flybe taking charge of 43 Ryanair routes, and the newly created Flybe Ireland would operate from bases in Dublin and Cork.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of passengers each day make use of air travel between major airports in Dublin, Cork, Kerry, Galway, Sligo and Waterford, and onwards to the UK and beyond.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/paddy\/img\/structure\/menu-aeroplane.png\" width=\"231\" height=\"70\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Paddy Compare offers <a href=\"\/travel-insurance\">travel insurance<\/a> for all types of travel. Carefully selected products can provide a cost effective way of ensuring that you will be covered for all of your holiday, business and personal travel needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryanair is in the process of trying to convince the European Commission that a \u20ac694 million takeover of Aer Lingus would not lead to a monopoly of the Irish airline market. The acquisition of Aer Lingus has long been seen as a personal ambition of O&#8217;Leary&#8217;s, topping his transformation of a one-plane airline in 1985, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paddycompare.ie\/insurance-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paddycompare.ie\/insurance-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paddycompare.ie\/insurance-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paddycompare.ie\/insurance-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paddycompare.ie\/insurance-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.paddycompare.ie\/insurance-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86,"href":"https:\/\/www.paddycompare.ie\/insurance-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paddycompare.ie\/insurance-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paddycompare.ie\/insurance-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paddycompare.ie\/insurance-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}