{"id":363286,"date":"2026-02-06T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T23:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/delta-air-lines-bets-big-42-more-long-haul-flights-from-major-hub-in-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T09:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T23:00:18","slug":"delta-air-lines-bets-big-42-more-long-haul-flights-from-major-hub-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=363286","title":{"rendered":"Delta Air Lines Bets Big: 42% More Long-Haul Flights From Major Hub In 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For many airlines, Q3 (July-September) is when they make the most money. It is when demand and fares are usually at their highest. It is, therefore, worth examining <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254993\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/delta-air-lines\/\"  >Delta Air Lines&#8217;<\/a><\/span> long-haul activity in this all-important quarter. In this article, &#8216;long-haul&#8217; is defined as any flight above 2,650 nautical miles (4,908 km).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One hub overtakes another as the airline&#8217;s eighth-highest for long-haul services.<\/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":[396,565,552,406,15477,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-delta-air-lines","category-los-angeles-international-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\/363286","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=363286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363287,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363286\/revisions\/363287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=363286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=363286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=363286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}