{"id":279364,"date":"2025-09-07T06:05:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T20:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/this-airline-only-made-money-los-angeles\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T06:05:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T20:05:16","slug":"this-airline-only-made-money-on-boeing-787-flights-to-los-angeles-last-year-its-not-nearly-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=279364","title":{"rendered":"This Airline Only Made Money On Boeing 787 Flights To Los Angeles Last Year: It&#8217;s Not Nearly Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"259399\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/air-tahiti-nui\/\"  >Air Tahiti Nui<\/a><\/span>, the small flag carrier of French Polynesia, has an extremely fascinating operating portfolio. The carrier operates just a handful of routes from its principal hub at Faa&#8217;a International Airport (PPT) in Papeete. Of these routes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radio1.pf\/so-long-seattle-sayonara-tokyo-gday-sydney-lavis-des-experts-au-chevet-datn\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >only the flight from Papeete to Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) was actually able to turn a profit<\/a>, according to figures that were reported by Radio1 from strategy consulting firm Arthur D. Little, which has long been seen as a leader in aviation strategy consulting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The carrier faces an important operational decision.<\/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":[10338,396,476,5437,1003],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-tahiti-nui","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-asia-pacific","category-legacy-carriers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279364","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=279364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279365,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279364\/revisions\/279365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=279364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=279364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}