{"id":127133,"date":"2024-09-15T15:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-09-15T05:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-us-south-america-flights-are-so-expensive\/"},"modified":"2024-09-15T15:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-15T05:00:12","slug":"why-are-flights-from-the-us-to-south-america-so-expensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=127133","title":{"rendered":"Why Are Flights From The US To South America So Expensive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, Delta Air Lines announced <a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/delta-air-lines-plans-new-york-buenos-aires-flights\/\" >the latest piece of its winter long-haul Latin America network<\/a>, a seasonal flight from New York&#8217;s             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"256662\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/john-f-kennedy-international-airport\/\"  >John F Kennedy International Airport (JFK)<\/a><\/span> to Buenos Aires&#8217;s Ministro Pistarini International Airport (EZE). If one hopes to visit Argentina for the Christmas holiday, as many do, the fares on this route are truly mind-boggling. Departing on Friday, December 22nd, 2023, (the first day most working people can leave for the holiday break) and returning a week later on December 29th, an economy-class ticket on this route sold for over $4,000 roundtrip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many factors behind these flights&#8217; tremendous cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"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":[11263,396,397,565,4201,3573,5718],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aerolneas-argentinas","category-aircraft","category-analysis","category-delta-air-lines","category-ezeiza-international-airport","category-guarulhos-international-airport","category-south-american-flights"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127133","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=127133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127134,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127133\/revisions\/127134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}