{"id":328358,"date":"2025-12-12T21:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T11:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/etihad-airways-cuts-this-long-airbus-a321lr-route-before-the-1st-flight\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T21:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T11:00:14","slug":"etihad-airways-cuts-this-8-hour-airbus-a321lr-route-before-the-1st-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=328358","title":{"rendered":"Etihad Airways Cuts This 8-Hour Airbus A321LR Route Before The 1st Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is unusual for an airline to remove a route before the first flight, <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/breeze-airways-cuts-3-west-coast-routes-before-1st-flight-heres-why\/\" >but it does happen<\/a>. The latest example involves <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254861\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/etihad\/\"  >Etihad Airways,<\/a><\/span> which has now pulled its service from <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"256231\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/abu-dhabi-international-airport\/\"  >Abu Dhabi<\/a><\/span><strong> to Algiers<\/strong>. It was among the first Airbus A321LR-operated links announced by the carrier. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Half of the airline&#8217;s LR routes to this continent have now been axed.<\/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":[573,1961,396,996,406,15477],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-airbus-a321lr","category-aircraft","category-etihad-airways","category-routes","category-sf-routes-analysis"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328358","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=328358"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328392,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328358\/revisions\/328392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=328358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=328358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=328358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}