{"id":436656,"date":"2026-05-24T08:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T22:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/southwest-longest-domestic-flight-denver\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T08:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T22:00:18","slug":"5-5-hour-flights-southwest-launches-longest-domestic-flight-ever-from-its-busiest-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=436656","title":{"rendered":"5.5-Hour Flights: Southwest Launches Longest Domestic Flight Ever From Its Busiest Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"44355\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/southwest-airlines\/\"  >Southwest Airlines<\/a><\/span> is, by almost every measure, an enormous carrier. This is exemplified by the fact that, according to current scheduling data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cirium.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >Cirium<\/a>, an aviation analytics company, it has scheduled 89,520 flights from <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"144284\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/denver-international-airport\/\"  >Denver International Airport<\/a><\/span> (DEN) this year. This makes it the busiest airport by departures, and it also has the most seats, with 14,635,842.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These services will form a key part of the carrier&#8217;s Alaskan expansion.<\/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":[396,476,1682,762,15477,645,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-anchorage-international-airport","category-denver-international-airport","category-sf-routes-analysis","category-southwest-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436656","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=436656"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436658,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436656\/revisions\/436658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=436656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=436656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=436656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}