{"id":274375,"date":"2025-08-28T09:05:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T23:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/as-early-as-5am-are-these-australias-worst-long-haul-flights\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T09:05:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T23:05:16","slug":"as-early-as-5am-are-these-australias-worst-long-haul-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=274375","title":{"rendered":"As Early As 5am: Are These Australia&#8217;s &#8216;Worst&#8217; Long-Haul Flights?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Between <strong>September and December<\/strong>, <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"4481\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/australia\/\"  >Australia<\/a><\/span> will have eight scheduled <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255303\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/long-haul\/\"  >long-haul<\/a><\/span> passenger <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255300\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/routes\/\"  >routes<\/a><\/span> that will lift off between <strong>05:00 and 07:00<\/strong> local time. Of course, whether they&#8217;re really the &#8216;worst&#8217; of such flights is entirely subjective. Some may like them because of the ease of sleeping, as far as is possible on an aircraft, at least in economy class. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia has eight long-haul passenger routes that depart between 05:00 and 07:00.<\/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":[396,476,273,2041,513,16953,406,15477,1053],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-australia","category-long-haul","category-melbourne-airport","category-perth-international-airport","category-routes","category-sf-routes-analysis","category-sydney-kingsford-smith-airport"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274375","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=274375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274376,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274375\/revisions\/274376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}