{"id":194331,"date":"2025-04-02T16:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T06:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/iberia-oldest-plane-26-years-old-popular-british-escape\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T16:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T06:00:16","slug":"iberias-oldest-plane-is-26-years-old-named-after-a-popular-british-escape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=194331","title":{"rendered":"Iberia&#8217;s Oldest Plane Is 26 Years Old &amp; Named After A Popular British Escape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2013124\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/iberia-fleet-in-2023\/\" >Iberia&#8217;s fleet is an average of around 10 years old<\/a><\/span>. The oldest aircraft still flying for the airline is around 26 years old and is named after the popular destination of Benidorm nestled on Spain&#8217;s Mediterranean coast. The Iberia group includes the mainline         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255347\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/iberia\/\"  >Iberia<\/a><\/span> carrier,         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"258082\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/iberia-express\/\"  >Iberia Express<\/a><\/span>, and         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255590\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/air-nostrum\/\"  >Air Nostrum<\/a><\/span>. While Benidorm is the oldest aircraft in the mainline carrier fleet, Air Nostrum has a slightly older Canadian jet in inventory. Here is what to know about the oldest aircraft in Iberian service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The oldest Iberia airline is approaching the end of its life having flown with the airline for a quarter century.<\/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":[12047,396,13240,612,1949,8137,1024],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-nostrum","category-aircraft","category-commercial-aviation","category-iberia","category-iberia-express","category-oldest-planes","category-spain"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194331","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=194331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194332,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194331\/revisions\/194332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}