{"id":344815,"date":"2026-01-08T17:00:59","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T07:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/end-of-an-era-this-tiny-us-airport-loses-only-international-route\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T17:00:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T07:00:59","slug":"end-of-an-era-this-tiny-us-airport-loses-1st-only-international-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=344815","title":{"rendered":"End Of An Era: This Tiny US Airport Loses 1st &amp; Only International Route"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The community of Wilmington, North Carolina, is about to lose its sole international service from <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"697856\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Wilmington International Airport<\/span><\/span> (ILM), which has briefly transported sun-seeking travelers to the beaches of <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"116373\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/punta-cana\/\"  >Punta Cana<\/a><\/span>, in the Dominican Republic. This comes as <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255595\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/avelo-airlines\/\"  >Avelo Airlines<\/a><\/span>, an American <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"259819\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/ultra-low-cost-carriers\/\"  >Ultra-Low-Cost Carrier<\/a><\/span>, looks to close its Wilmington base, seeing the axing of seven routes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sun sets on Wilmington&#8217;s brief taste of international travel.<\/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":[396,475,481,19181,10139,15477],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airports","category-avelo-airlines","category-last-flight","category-route-cancellation","category-sf-routes-analysis"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344815","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=344815"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345075,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344815\/revisions\/345075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=344815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=344815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=344815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}