{"id":119999,"date":"2024-09-04T04:05:12","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T18:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/domestic-routes-where-american-airlines-delta-united-compete-directly\/"},"modified":"2024-09-04T04:05:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T18:05:12","slug":"just-22-domestic-routes-where-american-airlines-delta-united-compete-directly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=119999","title":{"rendered":"Just 22 Domestic Routes: Where American Airlines, Delta &amp; United Compete Directly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                    <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254833\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/american-airlines\/\"  ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static0.simpleflyingimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/american_airlines_icon.png\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>American Airlines<\/a><\/span>                                        ,                                     <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254993\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/delta-air-lines\/\"  ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static0.simpleflyingimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/delta_icon.png\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>Delta Air Lines<\/a><\/span>                                        , and                                     <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"128657\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static0.simpleflyingimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/united_airlines_icon-1.png\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>United Airlines<\/span><\/span>                                         are known as the US Big Three. They are the three largest carriers by flights, available seat miles, and various other measures. Using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oag.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >OAG<\/a> data to examine the trio&#8217;s network in <strong>September 2024<\/strong> shows <strong>4,300+ domestic routes<\/strong>. However, going through them indicates that all three airlines compete head-to-head on 22.                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trio collectively has 4,300+ routes in September, with next to no overlap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,636,397,565,407,406,536],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-119999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-american-airlines","category-analysis","category-delta-air-lines","category-flights","category-routes","category-united-airlines","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120000,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119999\/revisions\/120000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}