{"id":190280,"date":"2025-03-25T00:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T14:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/rare-boeing-747-flew-passngers-back-26-years-ago\/"},"modified":"2025-03-25T00:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T14:00:13","slug":"rare-boeing-747-returns-back-to-its-home-26-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=190280","title":{"rendered":"Rare Boeing 747 Returns Back To Its Home 26 Years Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 12th, 2025, a rather sleepy Wednesday morning in Phoenix, Arizona, a 26-year-old Boeing 747-400 took off from Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX). The aircraft, which was a charter-configured variant operated by         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"257852\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/atlas-air\/\"  >Atlas Air<\/a><\/span>, is one of many Boeing 747-400 jets still operated by the carrier. While the vast majority of commercial airlines retired their Boeing 747-400 jets over a decade ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/atlas-air-passenger-aircraft-analysis\/\" >charter airlines like Atlas Air have continued to keep the jet flying<\/a>, citing demand for high-capacity aircraft within the private charter market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The aircraft is owned and operated by Atlas Air, but was previously owned by a carrier based in Asia.<\/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":[396,1017,717,13240,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-boeing-747-400","category-charter","category-commercial-aviation","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190280","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=190280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190281,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190280\/revisions\/190281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}