{"id":263172,"date":"2025-08-07T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T02:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-dont-any-us-airlines-fly-airbus-a330-variant\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T12:00:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T02:00:30","slug":"why-dont-any-us-airlines-fly-this-airbus-a330-variant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=263172","title":{"rendered":"Why Don\u2019t Any US Airlines Fly This Airbus A330 Variant?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2028056\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/united-states-maintains-largest-domestic-air-market\/\" >United States boasts the world&#8217;s largest aviation industry<\/a><\/span>, although a variety of widebody aircraft are missing from its airlines&#8217; fleets. Only four mainline US-based carriers operate widebody passenger aircraft: American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Hawaiian Airlines, and United Airlines. One of the aircraft types missing is the new <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"739520\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/a330-800\/\"  >Airbus A330-800<\/a><\/span>, one of the two A330neo variants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Hawaiian canceled its order for six A330-800s, no other US airline has ordered the variant, and it has struggled to find demand anywhere.<\/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":[426,743,4742,396,397,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus","category-airbus-a330","category-airbus-a330-800","category-aircraft","category-analysis","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263172","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=263172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263173,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263172\/revisions\/263173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=263172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=263172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=263172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}