{"id":412989,"date":"2026-04-25T07:10:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T21:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/united-airlines-grounds-new-premium-boeing-787-9-1st-long-haul-flight\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T07:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T21:10:12","slug":"tough-luck-united-airlines-grounds-new-premium-boeing-787-9-after-1st-long-haul-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=412989","title":{"rendered":"Tough Luck: United Airlines Grounds New Premium Boeing 787-9 After 1st Long-Haul Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"128657\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>United Airlines<\/span><\/span> newest <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255412\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/boeing-787-9\/\"  >Boeing 787-9<\/a><\/span> Dreamliners had to turn around after departing <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"43611\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/singapore\/\"  >Singapore<\/a><\/span> this week, after the crew detected an electrical smell onboard. This was the aircraft&#8217;s second long-haul flight since being introduced on the route with its latest elevated onboard interior on April 22. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A United Airlines Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner had to turn around mid-flight after departing Singapore, due to an electrical smell detected onboard.<\/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":[396,476,2638,537,5472,1436,536,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-boeing-787-9","category-diversion","category-san-francisco","category-singapore-changi-airport","category-united-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412989","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=412989"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":412993,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412989\/revisions\/412993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=412989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=412989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=412989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}