{"id":169821,"date":"2025-01-25T21:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T11:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/uk-only-european-country-2-carriers\/"},"modified":"2025-01-25T21:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T11:00:14","slug":"how-the-uk-became-europes-only-country-with-two-legacy-airlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=169821","title":{"rendered":"How The UK Became Europe&#8217;s Only Country With Two Legacy Airlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Europe, there are dozens of different legacy carriers, some of which are among the world&#8217;s highest-rated airlines with the most extensive route networks. These carriers include the likes of             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"77388\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/british-airways\/\"  ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static0.simpleflyingimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/ba-icon.png\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>British Airways<\/a><\/span>, Air France, Turkish Airlines (if you consider it a European airline, which geographically, it is), Lufthansa, and many more. These carriers all maintain membership in the largest global alliances, such as the SkyTeam and Star Alliance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both Virgin Atlantic and British Airways operate from the UK.<\/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":[396,13240,2979,1003,532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aircraft","category-commercial-aviation","category-european-aviation","category-legacy-carriers","category-virgin-atlantic"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169821","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=169821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169822,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169821\/revisions\/169822"}],"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=169821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}