{"id":358953,"date":"2026-01-31T03:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T17:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/ghost-flight-why-this-us-middle-east-route-is-just-41-full\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T03:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T17:00:17","slug":"just-41-full-why-this-us-long-haul-route-is-so-empty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=358953","title":{"rendered":"Just 41% Full: Why This US Long-Haul Route Is So Empty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is perhaps hard to image a long-haul route with a consistently poor load factor. But this is what <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"739521\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/kuwait-airways\/\"  >Kuwait Airways<\/a><\/span> seemingly experiences to\/from <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"256690\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/new-york-jfk\/\"  >New York JFK,<\/a><\/span> which is\u2014perhaps mercifully\u2014its sole route to North America. In the 12 months to October 2025, it only filled<strong> 41% of the available seats<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The surprising truth about this carrier&#8217;s seemingly struggling service<\/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":[396,475,1707,404,406,15477,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airports","category-kuwait-airways","category-new-york-jfk-airport","category-routes","category-sf-routes-analysis","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358953","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=358953"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358960,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358953\/revisions\/358960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=358953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=358953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=358953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}