{"id":2159,"date":"2018-03-09T20:11:49","date_gmt":"2018-03-10T02:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=2159"},"modified":"2018-03-09T20:11:49","modified_gmt":"2018-03-10T02:11:49","slug":"houston-losing-its-only-nonstop-flight-to-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=2159","title":{"rendered":"Houston losing its only nonstop flight to Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"content__segment combx\">A charter flight between George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) and the continent of Africa reportedly will end this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__segment combx\">Known as the \u201cHouston Express,\u201d the 7,700-mile flight is operated by Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings (Nasdaq: AAWW) on behalf of SonAir Airline Services SA, a subsidiary of Angolan national petroleum company Sonangol Group. It would fly between IAH and Luanda, Angola, a few times per week throughout the year and is set to end March 28, according to reports from the Houston Chronicle, PointsPros Inc. travel blog One Mile at a Time and aviation news site Airline Geeks.<\/p>\n<p>Click the link below for the full story!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/houston\/news\/2018\/03\/09\/houston-losing-its-only-nonstop-flight-to-africa.html?ana=yahoo&amp;yptr=yahoo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Houston losing only nonstop to Africa<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2160\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Atlas_Air-300x99.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"852\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Atlas_Air-300x99.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Atlas_Air-768x252.jpg 768w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Atlas_Air-1024x337.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Atlas_Air.jpg 2014w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 852px) 100vw, 852px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2161\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/SonAir727-300x111.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"762\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/SonAir727-300x111.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/SonAir727-768x285.jpg 768w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/SonAir727.jpg 1023w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 762px) 100vw, 762px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A charter flight between George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) and the continent of Africa reportedly will end this month. Known as the \u201cHouston Express,\u201d the 7,700-mile flight is operated by Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings (Nasdaq: AAWW) on behalf of SonAir Airline Services SA, a subsidiary of Angolan national petroleum company Sonangol Group. It would fly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[797,89,799],"tags":[836,92,842,838,841,655,575,840,745,348,672,846,843,844,837,845,839],"class_list":["post-2159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airline-news","category-aviation-news","category-boeing-news","tag-africa","tag-airport","tag-angolan","tag-atlas","tag-bush","tag-company","tag-express","tag-george","tag-group","tag-houston","tag-intercontinental","tag-luanda","tag-national","tag-petroleum","tag-sonair","tag-sonangol","tag-worldwide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2162,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159\/revisions\/2162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}