{"id":426282,"date":"2026-05-12T07:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T21:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/riyadh-air-applies-us-flights-which-cities-serve-first\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T07:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T21:31:10","slug":"riyadh-air-applies-for-us-flights-which-cities-will-it-serve-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=426282","title":{"rendered":"Riyadh Air Applies For US Flights: Which Cities Will It Serve First?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The newest airline in the Middle East, <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"487432\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/riyadh-air\/\"  >Riyadh Air<\/a><\/span>, has just sought permission from the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"261425\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states-department-of-transportation\/\"  >United States Department of Transportation<\/a><\/span> to commence operating non-stop flights to the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"128663\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states\/\"  >United States<\/a><\/span>. The airline applied for a foreign air carrier permit and exemption authority on Tuesday, May 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riyadh Air eyes a leap into the competitive US market. Initial destinations could hold the key to its future success.<\/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":[396,476,665,639,989,4407,988,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-new-airline","category-new-routes","category-riyadh-air","category-riyadh-airport","category-saudi-arabia","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426282","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=426282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":426283,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426282\/revisions\/426283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=426282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=426282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=426282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}