{"id":354940,"date":"2026-01-25T05:27:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T19:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/widebody-tug-of-war-airbus-lured-loyal-boeing-customer-a350\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T05:27:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T19:27:57","slug":"widebody-tug-of-war-how-airbus-lured-a-loyal-boeing-customer-with-the-a350","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=354940","title":{"rendered":"Widebody Tug-Of-War: How Airbus Lured A Loyal Boeing Customer With The A350"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spanish carrier <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255425\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/air-europa\/\"  >Air Europa<\/a><\/span> has inked a deal that is set to revolutionize its widebody fleet, with the decision to add 40 new Airbus <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"739536\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/a350-900\/\"  >Airbus A350-900<\/a><\/span>, which will <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/closer-look-turkish-airlines-strategic-investment-air-europa\/\" >bolster its long-haul operations<\/a>. The airline, which had already signalled the move with a memorandum of understanding (MOU) at the Dubai Air Show last year, finalised the deal at FITUR in Madrid this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From loyal customer to a new alliance: The surprising switch that&#8217;s turning heads<\/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":[1631,426,1123,14909,396,16569,1024],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-europa","category-airbus","category-airbus-a350-900","category-airbus-order","category-aircraft","category-manufacturers","category-spain"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354940","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=354940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354941,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354940\/revisions\/354941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=354940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=354940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=354940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}