{"id":406497,"date":"2026-04-16T06:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T20:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/delta-air-lines-cuts-6-long-haul-routes-inside-the-massive-network-cull\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T06:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T20:00:19","slug":"delta-air-lines-cuts-6-long-haul-routes-inside-the-massive-network-cull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=406497","title":{"rendered":"Delta Air Lines Cuts 6 Long-Haul Routes: Inside The Massive Network Cull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delta Air Lines carried 16.1 million long-haul passengers in 2025. According to the US Department of Transportation, it was the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"256203\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/skyteam\/\"  >SkyTeam<\/a><\/span> member&#8217;s best year to date for such traffic. It exceeded its prior record, which was held in 2024, by a decent 5%. Nearly one in seven of the country&#8217;s long-haul passengers flew Delta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between March 2025 and January 2026, all of these long-haul links ended. See them all here!<\/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":[396,475,565,406,15477,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airports","category-delta-air-lines","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\/406497","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=406497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":406498,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406497\/revisions\/406498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=406497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=406497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=406497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}