{"id":260669,"date":"2025-08-02T13:19:49","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T03:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/this-airbus-a321neo-flying-europe-new-zealand-via-usa\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T13:19:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T03:19:49","slug":"13000-miles-24-hours-flight-why-this-airbus-a321neo-is-flying-from-europe-to-new-zealand-via-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=260669","title":{"rendered":"13,000 Miles &amp; 24+ Hours Flight: Why This Airbus A321neo Is Flying From Europe To New Zealand Via The USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kiwi carrier, <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"158197\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/air-new-zealand\/\"  >Air New Zealand<\/a><\/span>, is set to welcome its latest <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"739506\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/a321neo\/\"  >Airbus A321neo<\/a><\/span> to the fleet, but first, it&#8217;s currently making its long-haul multi-stop trip from Airbus in Hamburg, Germany, to Auckland, New Zealand. Historically, delivery flights would make the multi-leg trip via the Middle East and Asia, but this time, due to rising tensions across the region, the aircraft will stop in Canada and Hawaii instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Navigating tensions: The unexpected 13,000-mile journey of a new Airbus aircraft.<\/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":[1395,528,396,476,294],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-new-zealand","category-airbus-a321neo","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-new-zealand"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260669","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=260669"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260803,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260669\/revisions\/260803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}