{"id":332145,"date":"2025-12-18T07:45:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T21:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/southwest-goes-global-new-transatlantic-giant\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T07:45:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T21:45:16","slug":"southwest-goes-global-a-new-transatlantic-giant-emerges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=332145","title":{"rendered":"Southwest Goes Global: A New Transatlantic Giant Emerges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"44355\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/southwest-airlines\/\"  >Southwest Airlines<\/a><\/span> has today announced that it will be making significant moves for its network by expanding connectivity beyond North America without adding long-haul aircraft to its fleet. The carrier has announced a tie-up with Turkish Airlines, which is set to link Southwest&#8217;s US flights into its transatlantic service through the airline&#8217;s extensive hub-and-spoke network based at Istanbul Airport (IST). The plan at this point is to allow travelers to purchase single itineraries across both networks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The carrier is announcing one of its most ambitious partnerships ever.<\/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":[396,476,1041,645,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-low-cost-carrier","category-southwest-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332145","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=332145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332146,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332145\/revisions\/332146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=332145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=332145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=332145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}