{"id":27801,"date":"2019-01-02T20:22:21","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T20:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27801"},"modified":"2019-01-02T20:22:21","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T20:22:21","slug":"qatar-wants-a-slice-of-chinas-huge-aviation-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27801","title":{"rendered":"Qatar wants a slice of China&#8217;s huge aviation market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">London (CNN Business)<\/cite>Qatar Airways is buying into the one market no major airline can ignore: mainland China. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The state-owned Gulf airline said Wednesday that it has acquired 5% of China Southern Airlines (<a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/quote\/quote.html?symb=ZNH\" target=\"_blank\">ZNH<\/a>), the country&#8217;s largest carrier. US rivals American Airlines (<a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/quote\/quote.html?symb=AAL\" target=\"_blank\">AAL<\/a>) and Delta (<a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/quote\/quote.html?symb=DAL\" target=\"_blank\">DAL<\/a>) already have stakes in China Southern and China Eastern (<a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/quote\/quote.html?symb=CEA\" target=\"_blank\">CEA<\/a>), respectively.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Qatar Airways said it acquired its stake by purchasing China Southern shares on the Hong Kong and Shanghai stock markets. It&#8217;s the first major investment in mainland China by Qatar Airways. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London (CNN Business)Qatar Airways is buying into the one market no major airline can ignore: mainland China. The state-owned Gulf airline said Wednesday that it has acquired 5% of China Southern Airlines (ZNH), the country&#8217;s largest carrier. US rivals American Airlines (AAL) and Delta (DAL) already have stakes in China Southern and China Eastern (CEA),&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":27802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}