{"id":189550,"date":"2025-03-23T01:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T15:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/delta-air-lines-boeing-747-comeback\/"},"modified":"2025-03-23T01:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T15:00:13","slug":"this-is-why-the-boeing-747-made-a-comeback-at-delta-air-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=189550","title":{"rendered":"This Is Why The Boeing 747 Made A Comeback At Delta Air Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On April 23rd, 1977, US-based legacy carrier         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254993\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/delta-air-lines\/\"  >Delta Air Lines<\/a><\/span> operated what many expected would be the last Boeing 747 flight ever flown by the company. The carrier, after a brief stint of operating early-generation Boeing 747-100 aircraft, had decided that the model was simply going to be too large to serve the company&#8217;s needs. Delta was busy building a business model connecting secondary hubs like Atlanta (ATL) to destinations across the world, and <strong>the immense capacity of the Boeing 747-100 did not really fit with this operational model<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The aircraft reentered service with the carrier.<\/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":[396,399,13240,565,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-boeing-747","category-commercial-aviation","category-delta-air-lines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189550","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=189550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189551,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189550\/revisions\/189551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}