{"id":353486,"date":"2026-01-22T14:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T04:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/top-10-airlines-long-haul-flights-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T14:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T04:47:08","slug":"top-10-airlines-with-the-most-long-haul-flights-in-2026-ranked-new-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=353486","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Airlines With The Most Long-Haul Flights In 2026 Ranked (New Data)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long-haul flying is one of the wonders of commercial air travel, transporting passengers across the globe on nonstop services lasting several hours. While precise definitions of what constitutes &#8220;long-haul&#8221; vary among airlines and authorities, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) defines <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255303\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/long-haul\/\"  >long-haul<\/a><\/span> as flights lasting between six to 16 hours, while other definitions look at flight distance, typically categorizing routes over 3,000 miles as long-haul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two airlines pull ahead, but competition is fierce in the long-haul game.<\/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":[396,476,5001,2041,15477,536,495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-long-haul-flights","category-long-haul","category-sf-routes-analysis","category-united-airlines","category-worldwide"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353486","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=353486"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353581,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353486\/revisions\/353581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=353486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=353486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=353486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}