{"id":407856,"date":"2026-04-18T01:36:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T15:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/in-2-days-british-airways-launches-new-record-breaking-long-haul-us-route\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T01:36:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T15:36:17","slug":"in-2-days-british-airways-launches-new-record-breaking-long-haul-us-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=407856","title":{"rendered":"In 2 Days: British Airways Launches New Record-Breaking Long-Haul US Route"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That did not take long. On Sunday, April 19, <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"77388\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/british-airways\/\"  >British Airways<\/a><\/span> will take off from London Heathrow to St. Louis. It is a record-breaking development because it means BA will fly from Heathrow to 26 US airports in the peak summer. The prior record was 25, which was last available in 2023. <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/notable-airline-routes-204\/\" >It comes days after partner Aer Lingus began its first flight from Dublin to Raleigh\/Durham<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BA will now serve a record 26 US airports from London Heathrow this summer.<\/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":[396,475,1513,406,15477,701,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airports","category-british-airways","category-routes","category-sf-routes-analysis","category-united-kingdom","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407856","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=407856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407857,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407856\/revisions\/407857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=407856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=407856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=407856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}