{"id":229569,"date":"2025-06-05T02:06:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T16:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/does-alaska-airlines-1st-european-route-make-sense\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T02:06:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T16:06:16","slug":"does-alaska-airlines-1st-european-route-make-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=229569","title":{"rendered":"Does Alaska Airlines&#8217; 1st European Route Make Sense?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On June 3, Alaska Airlines revealed its first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simpleflying.com\/tag\/europe\" >European<\/a> route. Starting next May, the<strong> one<\/strong>world member will begin flying from <strong>Seattle<\/strong>\u2014by far its most-served airport\u2014to <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/alaska-airlines-fly-italy-with-boeing-787\/\" ><strong>Rome Fiumicino<\/strong><\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/notable-airline-routes-168\/\" >The announcement came shortly after the carrier started its first long-haul service (to Tokyo Narita)<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/this-major-us-airport-welcomes-new-european-airline-with-airbus-a340-flights\/\" >a day after Seattle welcomed Edelweiss as its next European operator<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It will be Seattle&#8217;s first Italian route.<\/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":[396,476,516,995,2638,120,407,1026,345,2041,1276,1277,406,550,15477,4897,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-alaska-airlines","category-boeing-787","category-boeing-787-9","category-europe","category-flights","category-hawaiian-airlines","category-italy","category-long-haul","category-rome","category-rome-fiumicino-airport","category-routes","category-seattle-tacoma-international-airport","category-sf-routes-analysis","category-transatlantic-travel","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229569","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=229569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229570,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229569\/revisions\/229570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}