{"id":394727,"date":"2026-03-27T22:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T12:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/london-heathrows-big-shake-up-the-3-new-long-haul-airlines-youll-see-in-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T22:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T12:00:18","slug":"london-heathrows-big-shake-up-the-3-new-long-haul-airlines-youll-see-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=394727","title":{"rendered":"London Heathrow&#8217;s Big Shake-Up: The 3 New Long-Haul Airlines You&#8217;ll See In 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone knows that <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"259797\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/london-heathrow-airport\/\"  >London Heathrow<\/a><\/span> is a highly expensive and heavily slot-constrained airport. These factors keep out many airlines that wish to fly there, including to attain higher yields and to benefit from the facility&#8217;s brand awareness. Many carriers have increasingly opted for London Gatwick instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They add to the three long-haul airlines that started flying to Heathrow last year&#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":[396,475,11363,1022,2589,989,406,15477,701],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airports","category-beond","category-london-heathrow-airport","category-pakistan-international-airlines","category-riyadh-air","category-routes","category-sf-routes-analysis","category-united-kingdom"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394727","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=394727"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394809,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394727\/revisions\/394809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=394727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=394727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=394727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}