{"id":138111,"date":"2024-10-09T16:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T06:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/air-france-boeing-747-display-team-flight\/"},"modified":"2024-10-09T16:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T06:00:12","slug":"throwback-air-france-says-farewell-to-the-boeing-747-with-the-help-of-a-display-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=138111","title":{"rendered":"Throwback: Air France Says Farewell To The Boeing 747 With The Help Of A Display Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2016, Air France retired its last             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"59013\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Boeing 747<\/span><\/span> Jumbo jets in a ceremony attended by         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2020538\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/patrouille-de-france-fun-facts-list\/\" >the French Air Force aerobatic demonstration team, the Patrouille de France<\/a><\/span>. For a short time after that, Air France continued to fly the largest passenger jet in existencethe             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"70735\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Airbus A380<\/span><\/span> (but only for another four years, when         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2015734\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/air-france-airbus-a380-network-analysis\/\" >the COVID-19 pandemic triggered their early retirement<\/a><\/span>). Here is a throwback to when Air France retired its &#8220;Queen of the Skies.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air France retired its fleet of Boeing 747s in 2016 having been one of the oldest operators since 1970.<\/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":[1719,396,399,408,3509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-france","category-aircraft","category-boeing-747","category-history","category-retirement"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138111","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=138111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138112,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138111\/revisions\/138112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}