{"id":445849,"date":"2026-06-05T02:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T16:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/6-hour-flights-southwest-longest-ever-international-route\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T02:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T16:00:20","slug":"6-hour-flights-southwest-launches-its-longest-ever-international-route-this-year-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=445849","title":{"rendered":"6-Hour Flights: Southwest Launches Its Longest Ever International Route This Year [Map]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US-based low-cost giant, <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 set to launch its longest-ever international route later this year, with a flight time of around six hours. With the airline having indicated its intention to operate long-haul routes in the coming years, this could perhaps be seen as a step towards the airline&#8217;s envisioned future network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting in October, the carrier will operate daily flights from Las Vegas, to San Jose, Costa Rica, using its fleet of Boeing 737-700.<\/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":[396,476,3475,1190,15477,645,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-boeing-737-700","category-harry-reid-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\/445849","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=445849"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445985,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445849\/revisions\/445985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=445849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=445849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=445849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}