{"id":442907,"date":"2026-06-01T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T22:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/southwest-airlines-longest-lower-48-flight\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T08:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T22:00:19","slug":"6-5-hours-on-southwest-airlines-its-longest-ever-lower-48-flight-launches-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=442907","title":{"rendered":"6.5 Hours On Southwest Airlines? Its Longest-Ever Lower 48 Flight Launches This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to <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&#8217;<\/a><\/span> longest routes, Hawaii will almost always dominate the rankings. Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/southwest-longest-domestic-flight-denver\/\" >the carrier&#8217;s new services to Alaska<\/a>, while long, are beaten in duration by plenty of its other corridors. As far as the lower 48 US states are concerned, however, next week will see a new leader in scheduled block time when Southwest starts flying from Boston to San Diego.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A closer look at the carrier&#8217;s new transcontinental odyssey.<\/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":[396,476,1288,3089,15477,645,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-boston-logan-international-airport","category-san-diego-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\/442907","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=442907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":442908,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442907\/revisions\/442908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=442907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=442907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=442907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}