{"id":372883,"date":"2026-02-20T21:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T11:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/podcast-281\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T21:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T11:21:09","slug":"the-simple-flying-podcast-episode-281-scrapping-3-year-old-a320neos-united-backs-ge-for-787s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=372883","title":{"rendered":"The Simple Flying Podcast Episode 281: Scrapping 3-Year-Old A320neos, United Backs GE For 787s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Simple Flying\u2019s latest podcast is live and ready for you to enjoy! Hosted by Managing Editor <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/author\/tom\/\" >Tom Boon<\/a> and Senior Editor <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/author\/channing-black\/\" >Channing Reid<\/a>, the 281st episode is now available for your listening pleasure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this week&#8217;s episode, Tom and Channing dive into the surprising decision by Spirit to scrap 3-year-old A320neos, leaving many questioning the aircraft&#8217;s reliability.<\/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":[396,479],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-podcasts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372883","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=372883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":372884,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372883\/revisions\/372884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=372883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=372883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=372883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}