{"id":146817,"date":"2024-11-04T15:30:15","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T05:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/china-airlines-ontario-california-flights-guide\/"},"modified":"2024-11-04T15:30:15","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T05:30:15","slug":"unlikely-transpacific-route-why-does-china-airlines-fly-to-ontario-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=146817","title":{"rendered":"Unlikely Transpacific Route: Why Does China Airlines Fly To Ontario, California?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the competitive transpacific aviation market,             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"256619\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/los-angeles-international-airport\/\"  >Los Angeles International Airport<\/a><\/span> (LAX) has long been the dominant gateway between North America and Asia. Yet,             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255567\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/china-airlines\/\"  >China Airlines<\/a><\/span> launched a direct flight from Taipei to Ontario, California, in March 2018, bypassing the iconic LAX. This unusual choice has sparked curiosity among travelers and industry experts alike: Why would an airline choose Ontario, a relatively smaller airport just over 35 miles east of Los Angeles, for a major transpacific route? This feature dives into the strategic motivations behind this unexpected decision, from operational benefits to demographic alignment and passenger convenience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China Airlines&#8217; Taipei-Ontario route serves Southern California&#8217;s Taiwanese community directly, bypassing congested LAX.<\/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":[396,475,23,1601,1475],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airports","category-california","category-china-airlines","category-ontario-international-airport"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146817","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=146817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146818,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146817\/revisions\/146818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}