{"id":351521,"date":"2026-01-19T14:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T04:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/australias-new-record-long-airbus-a220-flights\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T14:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T04:30:18","slug":"inside-australias-new-record-long-airbus-a220-flights-on-this-tiny-airline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=351521","title":{"rendered":"Inside Australia&#8217;s New Record-Long Airbus A220 Flights On This Tiny Airline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of March, Air Niugini will begin operating what will be the longest Airbus A220 route to and from Australia. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aeroroutes.com\/eng\/260113-pxns26syd\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >As reported yesterday by Aero Routes<\/a>, at the start of the IATA Summer Schedule, which encompasses the winter in the Southern Hemisphere, the flag carrier of Papua New Guinea plans on flying its new<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58499\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/airbus\/\"  >Airbus<\/a><\/span> narrowbody twinjets from Port Moresby to Sydney. These are currently all examples of the larger A220-300 model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The deployment of the A220 on this route will also coincide with a frequency boost.<\/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":[18132,426,434,396,273,15477],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-niugini","category-airbus","category-airbus-a220","category-aircraft","category-australia","category-sf-routes-analysis"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351521","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=351521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351522,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351521\/revisions\/351522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=351521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=351521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=351521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}