{"id":364398,"date":"2026-02-08T06:36:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T20:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/premium-economy-booming-ultra-long-haul-flights\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T06:36:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T20:36:18","slug":"why-premium-economy-is-booming-on-ultra-long-haul-flights-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=364398","title":{"rendered":"Why Premium Economy Is Booming On Ultra-Long-Haul Flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Around the world, <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2044823\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/prem\/ium-economy-popular\/\" >premium economy class is growing, and it is typically growing at a faster rate<\/a><\/span> than economy and business class tickets, and the<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255961\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/premium-economy\/\"  >premium economy<\/a><\/span> development arc is much like the business class before it. Indeed, business was seen as a compromise between normal luxury tickets and &#8216;coach&#8217; class tickets for frequent-flying businesspeople, while premium economy is a compromise between business and economy (including economy with extra legroom).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Premium economy is becoming more and more popular around the world as passengers seek a comfortable, but affordable class of fare.<\/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":[396,476,2041,613,3651,854],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-long-haul","category-passenger-experience","category-premium-cabin","category-premium-economy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364398","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=364398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":364399,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364398\/revisions\/364399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=364398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=364398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=364398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}