{"id":229099,"date":"2025-06-04T01:05:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T15:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/this-major-us-airport-welcomes-new-european-airline-with-airbus-a340-flights\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T01:05:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T15:05:16","slug":"this-major-us-airport-welcomes-new-european-airline-with-airbus-a340-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=229099","title":{"rendered":"This Major US Airport Welcomes New European Airline With Airbus A340 Flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On June 2, <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"653583\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/edelweiss\/\"  >Edelweiss,<\/a><\/span> the Swiss leisure airline, inaugurated the first flight ever from<strong> Zurich to Seattle<\/strong>. This followed the return of SAS from Copenhagen on May 21, <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/sas-now-serves-10-us-destinations-with-latest-route-launch\/\" >having last flown to Seattle in 2009<\/a>. Their entry means <strong>12 passenger airlines<\/strong>\u2014US and European\u2014now fly between the Washington State airport and Europe, the most since 2023. <a href=\"https:\/\/news.alaskaair.com\/alaska-airlines\/ciao-italia\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >Alaska Airlines will join them next year, with its first route to Rome<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edelweiss&#8217; entry means Zurich has become Seattle&#8217;s 11th European destination.<\/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":[396,475,6821,120,407,2041,406,1251,550,15477,4897,423,2969],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airports","category-edelweiss","category-europe","category-flights","category-long-haul","category-routes","category-sas","category-seattle-tacoma-international-airport","category-sf-routes-analysis","category-transatlantic-travel","category-united-states","category-widebodies"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229099","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=229099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229100,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229099\/revisions\/229100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}