{"id":211130,"date":"2025-05-05T14:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T04:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-lufthansa-hasnt-retired-boeing-747s\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T14:00:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T04:00:20","slug":"why-hasnt-lufthansa-retired-its-boeing-747s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=211130","title":{"rendered":"Why Hasn&#8217;t Lufthansa Retired Its Boeing 747s?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Germany&#8217;s flag carrier,         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255195\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/lufthansa\/\"  >Lufthansa<\/a><\/span>, is one of the largest airlines in Europe. With a diverse fleet and a network that stretches to most corners of the globe, an iconic aircraft in it&#8217;s fleet is 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>, which remains a backbone for Lufthansa&#8217;s long-haul operations. When does Lufthansa plan to retire the Queen of the Skies and utilize newer aircraft capabilities and technologies?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lufthansa continues to operate the 747 for several operational reasons, including Frankfurt and Munich being heavily slot-constrained.<\/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":[396,1249,399,13240,734],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-aircraft-retirement","category-boeing-747","category-commercial-aviation","category-lufthansa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211130","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=211130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211131,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211130\/revisions\/211131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}