{"id":127,"date":"2010-06-15T20:16:27","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T08:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auip.wordpress.com\/?p=127"},"modified":"2010-06-15T20:16:27","modified_gmt":"2010-06-15T08:16:27","slug":"news-brief-qantas-air-nz-ranked-in-worlds-top-airlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/news-brief-qantas-air-nz-ranked-in-worlds-top-airlines\/","title":{"rendered":"News Brief: Qantas &#038; Air NZ ranked in world\u2019s top airlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boarding an airplane in the States can feel like being a herded cow. Then once you\u2019re on board the sentiment changes to being a sardine squished into a can. Needless to say, if you\u2019ve flown economy class then it\u2019s not the most pleasant experience and far from luxurious.<a href=\"http:\/\/auip.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/06\/qantas-plane.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-128\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/auip.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/06\/qantas-plane.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"162\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the world, especially in Asia and the Middle East, airline travel remains a well-catered transportation form that seeks to please fliers. Skytrax recently listed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eturbonews.com\/16359\/not-one-us-or-european-carrier-makes-list-worlds-10-best-airline\">world\u2019s 10 best airlines<\/a>. Not a single U.S. airline company made the list, however both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airnewzealand.com.au\/\">Air New Zealand<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qantas.com.au\/travel\/airlines\/home\/au\/en\">Qantas<\/a>, which both fly to the South Pacific, received honors.<\/p>\n<p>If you board a program group flight from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.studentuniverse.com\/study\/auip\">Student Universe <\/a>bound for Australia, New Zealand or Fiji, then chances are that you\u2019ll receive multiple meals and snacks during the flight while watching movies on your personal media screen. And your elbows won\u2019t be jabbing into the side of your seat neighbor either!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boarding an airplane in the States can feel like being a herded cow. Then once you\u2019re on board the sentiment changes to being a sardine squished into a can. Needless to say, if you\u2019ve flown economy class then it\u2019s not the most pleasant experience and far from luxurious. Elsewhere in the world, especially in Asia and the Middle East, airline&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,26,22,17,6,7,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-north-queensland","category-australia-northern-territory","category-australia-south-queensland","category-australia-sydney","category-fiji","category-new-zealand","category-news-brief"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}