{"id":403238,"date":"2026-04-11T03:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T17:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/alaska-airlines-1st-europe-flight-launch-delta-fighting-back\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T03:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T17:00:18","slug":"alaska-airlines-1st-europe-flight-launches-this-month-delta-is-already-fighting-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=403238","title":{"rendered":"Alaska Airlines&#8217; 1st Europe Flight Launches This Month \u2013 Delta Is Already Fighting Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254956\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/alaska-airlines\/\"  >Alaska Airlines<\/a><\/span> is preparing to cross a symbolic frontier. On April 28, 2026, the Seattle-based carrier will launch its first-ever nonstop flight to Europe, linking Seattle and Rome with a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner inherited through its merger with Hawaiian Airlines. What could have been a straightforward network expansion story is increasingly becoming something much bigger. This is now a premium transatlantic showdown in one of the West Coast&#8217;s most strategically important long-haul markets. Strong early demand prompted Alaska to upgrade the route from its original four-times-weekly plan to daily seasonal service, underscoring its serious view of Seattle as a major global gateway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The carrier has made a groundbreaking move.<\/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":[396,476,516,406,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-alaska-airlines","category-routes","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403238","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=403238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":403239,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403238\/revisions\/403239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=403238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=403238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=403238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}