{"id":73212,"date":"2018-12-27T14:11:18","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T13:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/12\/27\/gatwick-airport-majority-stake-sold-to-french-group\/"},"modified":"2018-12-27T14:11:18","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T13:11:18","slug":"gatwick-airport-majority-stake-sold-to-french-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=73212","title":{"rendered":"Gatwick airport: majority stake sold to French group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New owner says Brexit threat helped Vinci get 50.01% stake in UK\u2019s second-busiest airport for \u2018reasonable\u2019 \u00a32.9bnFrance\u2019s Vinci Airports is taking a controlling stake in Gatwick for \u00a32.9bn, a week after the UK\u2019s second-biggest airport was brought to a standstill by a series of drone sightings.A consortium led by the US investment fund Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) is selling a majority stake of 50.01% in the airport to Vinci Airports, one of the world\u2019s top airport operators and part of the infrastructure group Vinci. Vinci and GIP will manage Gatwick together. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2018\/dec\/27\/gatwick-airport-sold-to-french-group\" target=\"_blank\">Gatwick airport: majority stake sold to French group<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New owner says Brexit threat helped Vinci get 50.01% stake in UK\u2019s second-busiest airport for \u2018reasonable\u2019 \u00a32.9bnFrance\u2019s Vinci Airports is taking a controlling stake in Gatwick for \u00a32.9bn, a week after the UK\u2019s second-biggest airport was brought to a standstill by a series of drone sightings.A consortium led by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}