{"id":309829,"date":"2025-10-31T22:05:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T12:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/do-virgin-atlantics-new-long-boeing-787-flights-to-phuket-make-sense\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T22:05:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T12:05:18","slug":"do-virgin-atlantics-new-long-boeing-787-flights-to-phuket-make-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=309829","title":{"rendered":"Do Virgin Atlantic&#8217;s New Long Boeing 787 Flights To Phuket Make Sense?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In October 2026, <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"129483\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/virgin-atlantic\/\"  >Virgin Atlantic<\/a><\/span> will begin flying from <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"259797\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/london-heathrow-airport\/\"  >London Heathrow<\/a><\/span> to Phuket. It will be the second London link to the ever-popular Thai destination, coexisting with TUI Airways&#8217; offering from Gatwick. Thai Airways had nonstop Phuket-Heathrow service amid the pandemic in 2021\/2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;ll be its first time in Southeast Asia.<\/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":[396,476,231,995,1022,406,15477,532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-asia","category-boeing-787","category-london-heathrow-airport","category-routes","category-sf-routes-analysis","category-virgin-atlantic"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309829","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=309829"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309866,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309829\/revisions\/309866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=309829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=309829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=309829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}