{"id":201072,"date":"2025-04-16T21:05:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T11:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/london-gets-longest-boeing-737-flights-with-new-airline-arrival\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T21:05:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T11:05:15","slug":"london-gets-longest-boeing-737-flights-with-new-airline-arrival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=201072","title":{"rendered":"London Gets Longest Boeing 737 Flights With New Airline Arrival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It took a while, but <strong>Air Sierra Leone <\/strong>has confirmed flights to London. It is a new airline with the IATA code YD. After an initial <strong>Freetown to London Gatwick<\/strong> round-trip service in April, a regular operation using a        <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"739420\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/737-max-8\/\"  >Boeing 737 MAX 8<\/a><\/span> from Ascend Airways will begin in June. Due to Air Sierra Leone&#8217;s UK ban, its operating permit is conditional on using a UK operator. It&#8217;ll be a costly setup. <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/the-uk-gets-new-long-haul-flights-by-this-airline-on-the-rare-airbus-a330-800\/\" >It will be the fourth carrier to join<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/the-uk-gets-new-long-haul-flights-by-this-airline-on-the-rare-airbus-a330-800\/\" > Gatwick&#8217;s ranks in 2025<\/a>, building on multiple others in the past few years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It will be the UK&#8217;s third-longest 737 operation.<\/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":[573,396,422,718,938,13240,407,759,1265,406,15477,701],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-aircraft","category-boeing-737","category-boeing-737-max","category-boeing-737-max-8","category-commercial-aviation","category-flights","category-london","category-london-gatwick-airport","category-routes","category-sf-routes-analysis","category-united-kingdom"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201072","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=201072"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201075,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201072\/revisions\/201075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}