{"id":249547,"date":"2025-07-11T06:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T20:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-southwest-airlines-doesnt-fly-europe\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T06:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T20:00:17","slug":"heres-why-southwest-airlines-doesnt-fly-to-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=249547","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s Why Southwest Airlines Doesn&#8217;t Fly To Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/southwest-airlines\/\" >Southwest Airlines<\/a> commenced operations in 1971, and has since grown to become the fourth-largest airline in North America. Today, the low-cost carrier operates the largest fleet of Boeing 737s in the world, with the latest data from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ch-aviation.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >ch-aviation<\/a> showing a staggering total of 801 aircraft, made up of 342 737-700s, 203 737-800s, and 257 737 MAX 8s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is stopping the low-cost carrier from launching transatlantic services?<\/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":[396,476,422,938,1714,645,1478],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-boeing-737","category-boeing-737-max-8","category-icelandair","category-southwest-airlines","category-transatlanic"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249547","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=249547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249548,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249547\/revisions\/249548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}