{"id":266667,"date":"2025-08-14T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T23:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/phoenix-most-underrated-airport\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T09:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T23:00:12","slug":"forget-sky-harbor-fly-to-phoenixs-most-underrated-airport-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=266667","title":{"rendered":"Forget Sky Harbor: Fly To Phoenix\u2019s Most Underrated Airport Instead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"293121\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/phoenix-sky-harbor-international-airport\/\"  >Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport<\/a><\/span>(PHX) is one of the busiest airports in the US, processing more than 52 million passengers per year. It also serves as a major hub for Southwest Airlines and American Airlines, which dominate the airport with a market share of 36% and 31%, respectively. However, did you know that the Phoenix metropolitan area also has another airport? One that is much smaller and arguably more convenient for many journeys &#8211; Mesa Gateway Airport (IWA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mesa Gateway Airport (IWA) provides a convenient alternative to Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX).<\/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":[396,475,2994,6451,1736,11981,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airports","category-allegiant-air","category-arizona","category-phoenix-sky-harbor-international-airport","category-regional-airport","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266667","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=266667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266668,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266667\/revisions\/266668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=266667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=266667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=266667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}