{"id":157659,"date":"2024-12-14T04:00:14","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T18:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-airline-airbus-a340-order\/"},"modified":"2024-12-14T04:00:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T18:00:14","slug":"which-us-airline-placed-orders-for-the-airbus-a340","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=157659","title":{"rendered":"Which US Airline Placed Orders For The Airbus A340?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airwaysmag.com\/legacy-posts\/30-years-a340-operations\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >Airways Magazine<\/a>,             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58499\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/airbus\/\"  >Airbus<\/a><\/span> first began working on the             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"256457\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>A340<\/span><\/span> in the 1970s. At the time, the European manufacturer needed to make a plane that could compete with Boeing and McDonnell Douglas. The A340 was advertised as a replacement for the Boeing 707-300 and the Douglas DC-8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two US airlines placed orders but never received any aircraft.<\/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":[789,396,13240,4140,503,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus-a340","category-aircraft","category-commercial-aviation","category-continental-airlines","category-northwest-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157659","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=157659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157660,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157659\/revisions\/157660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}