{"id":137239,"date":"2024-10-06T16:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-10-06T06:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/airtran-airways-what-happened\/"},"modified":"2024-10-06T16:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-10-06T06:00:12","slug":"what-happened-to-us-low-cost-carrier-airtran-airways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=137239","title":{"rendered":"What Happened To US Low-Cost Carrier AirTran Airways?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AirTran Airways, or simply <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/airtran\/\" >AirTran<\/a>, was a US budget carrier with its head office based in Florida and its main hub in Atlanta. Operating mainly <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/boeing-717\/\" >Boeing 717s<\/a> and 737s, the airline would shuttle passengers around the US Midwest and East Coast. Operating for 21 years, AirTran ceased operations in 2014. Why doesn&#8217;t the airline still exist today?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking back at the life and times of the Orlando-headquartered carrier.<\/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":[396,1392,13765,408,1906,3005],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airline-history","category-airtran","category-history","category-low-cost-carriers","category-us-aviation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137239","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=137239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137240,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137239\/revisions\/137240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}