{"id":193317,"date":"2025-03-31T21:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T11:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/video\/the-real-reason-why-american-airlines-won-t-fly-the-airbus-a350\/"},"modified":"2025-03-31T21:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T11:00:15","slug":"the-real-reason-why-american-airlines-wont-fly-the-airbus-a350","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=193317","title":{"rendered":"The Real Reason Why American Airlines Won&#8217;t Fly The Airbus A350"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you know anything about commercial aviation in the United States, then you\u2019ll know that Delta is the only major network airline in the country to operate newer-generation Airbus widebodies. American and United, however, have become all-Boeing when it comes to twin-aisle jets &#8211; relying on the 777 and 787 for the longest of services. While you may already know this, you may NOT know about American Airlines\u2019 decision to turn down the Airbus A350 &#8211; and one particular individual who made this decision. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>                                                                                                                                    If you know anything about commercial aviation in the United States, then you\u2019ll know that Delta is the only major netw&#8230;<\/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":[430,396,636,13240],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus-a350","category-aircraft","category-american-airlines","category-commercial-aviation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193317","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=193317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193318,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193317\/revisions\/193318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}