{"id":360403,"date":"2026-02-02T05:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T19:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/uk-only-european-country-two-carriers\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T05:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T19:30:17","slug":"how-the-uk-became-europes-only-country-with-two-legacy-airlines-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=360403","title":{"rendered":"How The UK Became Europe&#8217;s Only Country With Two Legacy Airlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Europe, there are dozens of different legacy carriers, some of which are among the world&#8217;s highest-rated airlines with the most extensive route networks. These carriers include the likes of <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"77388\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/british-airways\/\"  >British Airways<\/a><\/span>, Air France, Turkish Airlines (if you consider it a European airline, which geographically, it is), Lufthansa, and many more. These carriers all maintain membership in the largest global alliances, such as the SkyTeam and Star Alliance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both Virgin Atlantic and British Airways operate from the UK.<\/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":[396,476,1513,701,6907],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-british-airways","category-united-kingdom","category-virgin-altantic"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360403","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=360403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360407,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360403\/revisions\/360407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=360403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=360403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=360403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}