{"id":412188,"date":"2026-04-24T06:00:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T20:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/ranked-delta-air-lines-top-15-long-haul-routes-summer-2026-flights\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T06:00:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T20:00:29","slug":"ranked-delta-air-lines-top-15-long-haul-routes-summer-2026-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=412188","title":{"rendered":"Ranked: Delta Air Lines&#8217; Top 15 Long-Haul Routes [Summer 2026 Flights]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airlines generally make money in the all-important Q3 (July-September), when demand and fares are usually at their highest levels. In that period, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cirium.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >Cirium<\/a> Diio data shows that <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254993\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/delta-air-lines\/\"  >Delta Air Lines<\/a><\/span> plans 11,895 long-haul departures from the US (double for both ways). That is more than in any other quarter in history. Flights have risen by 2% compared to the prior record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delta is set to break its own record for the most long-haul departures from the US in the peak summer&#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":[396,475,565,406,15477,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412188","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\/412188","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=412188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":412189,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412188\/revisions\/412189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=412188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=412188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=412188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}