{"id":367432,"date":"2026-02-13T06:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T20:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/only-26-full-the-us-10-emptiest-international-routes-revealed\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T06:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T20:00:18","slug":"only-26-full-the-uss-10-emptiest-international-routes-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=367432","title":{"rendered":"Only 26% Full: The US&#8217;s 10 Emptiest International Routes Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"128663\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states\/\"  >US&#8217;s<\/a><\/span> international market is enormous. In the 12 months to October 2025, <strong>256 million passengers traveled to\/from the country<\/strong>\u2014701,000 daily. Traffic was virtually flat year-over-year, perhaps driven, in part, <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/westjet-cuts-11-us-routes-in-major-network-shake-up\/\" >by the current geopolitics that is causing some airlines to cut multiple routes<\/a>. Traffic data is from the US Department of Transportation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US&#8217;s international aviation landscape is riddled with underperforming routes, although reasons exist for some of them&#8230;<\/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":[396,476,475,406,15477,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-airports","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\/367432","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=367432"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367434,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367432\/revisions\/367434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=367432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=367432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=367432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}