{"id":300930,"date":"2025-10-13T21:48:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T11:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/american-airlines-airbus-a321xlr-preparation-delta-rules-out-transatlantic-narrowbodies\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T21:48:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T11:48:46","slug":"american-airlines-prepares-for-long-haul-narrowbody-flights-but-delta-opts-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=300930","title":{"rendered":"American Airlines Prepares For Long-Haul Narrowbody Flights But Delta Opts Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to the &#8216;big three&#8217; US legacy carriers, namely<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254833\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/american-airlines\/\"  >American Airlines<\/a><\/span>, Delta Air Lines, and United Airlines, there are some things that these operators do similarly, and others with contrasting approaches. A notable example of the latter is the use of single-aisle jets on long-haul flights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Airlines is gearing up to launch Airbus A321XLR transatlantic flights, but Delta is shying away from narrowbody long-haul operations.<\/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":[426,1778,396,476,636,565,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus","category-airbus-a321xlr","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-american-airlines","category-delta-air-lines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300930","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=300930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300931,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300930\/revisions\/300931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=300930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=300930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=300930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}