{"id":227356,"date":"2025-05-31T23:01:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T13:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/lufthansa-extends-a340-600-retirement\/"},"modified":"2025-05-31T23:01:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T13:01:15","slug":"lufthansa-extends-airbus-a340-600-retirement-to-early-2026-as-boeing-787-delivery-delays-persist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=227356","title":{"rendered":"Lufthansa Extends Airbus A340-600 Retirement To Early-2026 As Boeing 787 Delivery Delays Persist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><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> plans to retire its fleet of Airbus A340-600s at the start of 2026 as the airline introduces more efficient replacements, according to information from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aero.de\/news-49869\/Lufthansa-braucht-die-A340-600-auch-im-Winter-noch.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >aero.de<\/a>. This primarily concerns additional Boeing 787s, of which Lufthansa hopes to receive eight to 10 more by the end of this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lufthansa&#8217;s final A340-600 flight is scheduled for January 12, 2026.<\/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":[6319,396,734],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus-a340-600","category-aircraft","category-lufthansa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227356","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=227356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227357,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227356\/revisions\/227357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=227356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=227356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=227356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}