{"id":414746,"date":"2026-04-27T08:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T22:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/alaska-airlines-europe-launch\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T08:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T22:00:18","slug":"in-2-days-alaska-airlines-launches-1st-ever-flights-to-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=414746","title":{"rendered":"In 2 Days: Alaska Airlines Launches 1st-Ever Flights To Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After months of anticipation, the wait is almost over, with today (Sunday, April 26) marking just two days to go before <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> launches its first European route. The transatlantic corridor in question will link its global hub at<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"259745\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/seattle-tacoma-international-airport\/\"  >Seattle-Tacoma International Airport<\/a><\/span> (SEA) with <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"260164\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/rome-fiumicino\/\"  >Rome Fiumicino Airport<\/a><\/span> (FCO) in Italy, with its development having prompted a retaliatory route launch from rival US carrier <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>. Two more routes will follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History is about to be made.<\/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":[396,475,516,398,995,550,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airports","category-alaska-airlines","category-boeing","category-boeing-787","category-seattle-tacoma-international-airport","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414746","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=414746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414747,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414746\/revisions\/414747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=414746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=414746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=414746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}