{"id":262868,"date":"2025-08-07T00:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T14:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-dont-any-us-airlines-fly-antarctica\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T00:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T14:00:17","slug":"why-dont-any-us-airlines-fly-to-antarctica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=262868","title":{"rendered":"Why Don\u2019t Any US Airlines Fly To Antarctica?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"136398\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>United States<\/span><\/span> has its research station in Antarctica, known as McMurdo Station. The community is the largest on the frozen continent, supporting up to 1,500 permanent residents. This population fluctuates seasonally, where it decreases to around just a few hundred people through the Antarctic night. Several well-known airlines operate flights to and from Antarctica (on a charter basis), such as <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254825\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/qantas\/\"  >Qantas<\/a><\/span>,<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"256176\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>HiFly<\/span><\/span>, and more recently, <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254965\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/norse-atlantic\/\"  >Norse Atlantic<\/a><\/span>. However, no US airline flies there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An icy enigma: The untold story of US airlines and the frozen continent.<\/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":[396,476,227,14876,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-antarctica","category-antarcticaflights","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262868","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=262868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262869,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262868\/revisions\/262869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}