{"id":275429,"date":"2025-08-30T15:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T05:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-no-us-airlines-fly-worlds-longest-flight\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T15:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T05:00:16","slug":"why-dont-any-us-airlines-fly-the-worlds-longest-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=275429","title":{"rendered":"Why Don\u2019t Any US Airlines Fly The World\u2019s Longest Flight?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2045082\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/up-to-19h-15m-the-uss-10-longest-nonstop-flights\/\" >United States is the destination or departure point for thirteen of the world&#8217;s top twenty longest routes<\/a><\/span>. Yet US-based airlines only operate on four of these routes and none of the world&#8217;s top ten longest routes. These ultra-long-haul routes are very niche, and there are only a few 9,000+ nautical mile routes that would make economic sense to operate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the longest nonstop flights is operated by US airlines, even though many of the world&#8217;s longest nonstop flights fly to the US.<\/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":[13613,7843,396,476,17953,5903,1346,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus-a350-1000ulr","category-airbus-a350-900ulr","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-image","category-longest-route","category-singapore","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275429","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=275429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275430,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275429\/revisions\/275430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=275429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=275429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=275429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}