{"id":361507,"date":"2026-02-03T19:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T09:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-airline-operates-anything-seen-us\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T19:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T09:00:16","slug":"the-freedom-to-fly-why-this-airline-operates-unlike-anything-seen-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=361507","title":{"rendered":"The Freedom To Fly: Why This Airline Operates Unlike Anything Seen In The US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Argentine low-cost carrier <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"256191\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/flybondi\/\"  >Flybondi<\/a><\/span> is functionally weird. It lives in a paradoxical world that only makes sense if you understand not just Argentina&#8217;s aviation landscape, but also the nation&#8217;s way of life and its dynamic cultural heritage. Argentina&#8217;s low-cost aviation industry is in its infancy, especially compared to major markets like the United States or the European Union. Low-cost carriers in the nation only began to emerge in the last decade, and they have done so with very different operational objectives. Jetsmart exists as a carrier that resembles more of what we would think of as a budget airline, with convenient, cheap flights and low-frills tickets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The carrier is functionally rather strange.<\/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":[396,476,1497,19454,1041],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-argentina","category-flybondi","category-low-cost-carrier"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361507","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=361507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361508,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361507\/revisions\/361508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=361507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=361507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=361507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}