{"id":441628,"date":"2026-05-30T11:08:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T01:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/phoenix-become-starlux-airlines-1st-airbus-a350-1000-long-haul-destination\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T11:08:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T01:08:37","slug":"new-phoenix-to-become-starlux-airlines-1st-airbus-a350-1000-long-haul-destination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=441628","title":{"rendered":"New: Phoenix To Become STARLUX Airlines\u2019 1st Airbus A350-1000 Long-Haul Destination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwanese full-service carrier <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"259662\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/starlux-airlines\/\"  >Starlux Airlines<\/a><\/span> has announced that it will upscale its aircraft operations between <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"277016\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/taipeiairport\/\"  >Taipei Taoyuan International Airport<\/a><\/span> (TPE) and <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"293121\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/phoenix-sky-harbor-international-airport\/\"  >Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport<\/a><\/span> (PHX), with the airline planning to swap the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"739536\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/a350-900\/\"  >Airbus A350-900<\/a><\/span> on the route for the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"739539\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/a350-1000\/\"  >A350-1000<\/a><\/span>. This will be the airline&#8217;s first long-haul route operated with the -1000 variant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STARLUX Airlines is set to upgrade its long-haul operations from Taipei to Phoenix, swapping the Airbus A350-900 for the larger A350-1000 this July.<\/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":[566,396,476,1736,406,2796,2976,1602],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-441628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus-a350-1000","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-phoenix-sky-harbor-international-airport","category-routes","category-starlux","category-starlux-airlines","category-taipei-taoyuan-international-airport"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441628","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=441628"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":441707,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441628\/revisions\/441707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=441628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=441628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=441628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}