{"id":525464,"date":"2022-09-28T10:29:39","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T04:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=525464"},"modified":"2022-09-28T11:13:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T05:43:37","slug":"one-of-the-worlds-longest-flight-routes-has-a-major-wind-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/one-of-the-worlds-longest-flight-routes-has-a-major-wind-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"One of the world\u2019s longest flight routes has a major wind problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the world\u2019s longest flights is being disrupted by strong winds, forcing operator Air New Zealand to reduce passengers and luggage so it can take on more fuel.<\/p>\n<p>Two years of planning went into the new non-stop service from New York to Auckland which, at 17 hours and 35 minutes, is the world\u2019s fourth-longest. But within a week of opening the route this month, the airline found its modeling hadn\u2019t accounted for unusually strong headwinds, Chief Operating Integrity and Safety Officer David Morgan said Tuesday in Wellington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the world\u2019s longest flights is being disrupted by strong winds, forcing operator Air New Zealand to reduce passengers and luggage so it can take on more fuel. Two years of planning went into the new non-stop service from New York to Auckland which, at 17 hours and 35 minutes, is the world\u2019s fourth-longest. But within a week of opening the route this month, the airline found its modeling hadn\u2019t accounted for unusually strong headwinds, Chief Operating Integrity and Safety Officer David Morgan said Tuesday in Wellington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}