{"id":21061,"date":"2024-03-19T23:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/united-airlines-history-story\/"},"modified":"2024-03-19T23:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T13:00:12","slug":"from-air-mail-to-passenger-giant-the-history-of-united-airlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=21061","title":{"rendered":"From Air Mail To Passenger Giant: The History Of United Airlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>United Airlines has been flying for over nine decades. The founding member of Star Alliance serves six continents with its fleet of over 900 aircraft, but the Chicago-based carrier hasn&rsquo;t always been the powerhouse that it is today. With roots in other aviation outfits, the company developed from a mail carrier to one of the world&#39;s largest passenger airlines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United is one of the longest serving airlines in the US<\/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":[396,4140,408,536,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-continental-airlines","category-history","category-united-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21061","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=21061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21062,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21061\/revisions\/21062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}