{"id":205862,"date":"2025-04-26T01:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T15:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-us-airlines-not-operate-worlds-largest-commercial-planes\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T01:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T15:00:16","slug":"why-dont-any-us-airlines-operate-the-worlds-largest-commercial-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=205862","title":{"rendered":"Why Don&#8217;t Any US Airlines Operate The World&#8217;s Largest Commercial Aircraft?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1969, the United States led the world with giant widebody commercial aircraft as Pan Am became the launch customer for the Boeing 747 Jumbo. The         <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> was enlarged in subsequent variants and proved a massive success both in the domestic US and international export markets. Fast-forward to today, all remaining passenger 747s are in service with foreign airlines, and there are no double-decker or quad-engined aircraft in passenger service with US airlines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US airlines have been decreasing the size of their aircraft for years, with the Boeing 787 and Airbus A350 emerging as the upper limit.<\/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":[898,396,399,13240,423,1876],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus-a380","category-aircraft","category-boeing-747","category-commercial-aviation","category-united-states","category-widebody"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205862","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=205862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205863,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205862\/revisions\/205863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=205862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=205862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}