{"id":375819,"date":"2026-02-25T21:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T11:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/first-time-in-14-years-3-european-airlines-plan-australia-flights-in-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T21:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T11:00:17","slug":"first-time-in-14-years-3-european-airlines-plan-australia-flights-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=375819","title":{"rendered":"First Time In 14 Years: 3 European Airlines Plan Australia Flights In 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a typical day last year, 14,000 people flew between <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"16447\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/europe\/\"  >Europe<\/a><\/span> and <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"4481\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/australia\/\"  >Australia.<\/a><\/span> Naturally, most passengers connected to another flight en route, particularly with <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/up-to-17-hour-nonstop-flights-emirates-10-new-ultra-long-routes-in-2026\/\" >Emirates<\/a>, Qatar Airways, Singapore Airlines, and Cathay Pacific. On the Australian side, Qantas operated on a nonstop and one-stop basis. From Europe, two carriers had flights, both stopping en route.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the number of operators, Middle Eastern and Asian carriers will still carry the bulk of the market&#8217;s passengers&#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":[396,475,273,1513,120,1577,406,15477,1318],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airports","category-australia","category-british-airways","category-europe","category-finnair","category-routes","category-sf-routes-analysis","category-turkish-airlines"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375819","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=375819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375820,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375819\/revisions\/375820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=375819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=375819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=375819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}