{"id":133664,"date":"2024-09-26T17:00:17","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T07:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-did-british-airways-order-the-boeing-757\/"},"modified":"2024-09-26T17:00:17","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T07:00:17","slug":"why-did-british-airways-order-the-boeing-757","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=133664","title":{"rendered":"Why Did British Airways Order The Boeing 757?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2011082\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/boeing-757-brief-history\/\" >iconic Boeing 757 mid-sized airliner<\/a><\/span> boasts a capacity of up to 228 passengers and a range of 3,900 nautical miles. The             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"76754\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Boeing 757<\/span><\/span> represented a major leap for its time being as much as 80% more fuel efficient than         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"6494\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/boeing-727-why\/\" >the Boeing 727 trijet it replaced<\/a><\/span> and proved a successful project (and a loved aircraft by the pilots who flew them). One of the more curious historic Boeing 757 operators was             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"77388\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/british-airways\/\"  ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static0.simpleflyingimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/ba-icon.png\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>British Airways<\/a><\/span>, which used them on domestic routes before eventually replacing them with smaller Airbus aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Airways operated Boeing 757s for 27 years from 1983 to 2010, when it switched to smaller Airbus aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1,"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":[396,398,1379,1513,408,7399],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aircraft","category-boeing","category-boeing-757","category-british-airways","category-history","category-uk-domestic"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133664","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=133664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133665,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133664\/revisions\/133665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}