{"id":430123,"date":"2026-05-17T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T22:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/air-india-suspends-3-ultra-long-haul-us-routes\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T08:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T22:00:19","slug":"22-hour-flights-air-india-suspends-3-ultra-long-haul-routes-to-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=430123","title":{"rendered":"22-Hour Flights: Air India Suspends 3 Ultra-Long-Haul Routes To The US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the impacts of the ongoing<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"3613047\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/2026-iran-aviation-crisis\/\"  >2026 Iran Crisis<\/a><\/span> are being felt most directly in the Middle East, the subsequent disruption to the commercial aviation sector extends far beyond the periphery of the region. Indeed, Air India is heavily reliant on flying through Middle Eastern airspace to serve its destinations in Europe and North America, but present uncertainty on this front, along with other factors, has forced it to make cuts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The carrier continues to struggle with the impacts of external pressures.<\/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":[548,396,476,15477,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-india","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-sf-routes-analysis","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430123","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=430123"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430129,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430123\/revisions\/430129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=430123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=430123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=430123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}