{"id":242476,"date":"2025-06-27T06:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T20:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/lufthansa-boeing-747-no-short-haul-flights\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T06:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T20:00:16","slug":"why-doesnt-lufthansa-fly-the-boeing-747-on-short-haul-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=242476","title":{"rendered":"Why Doesn&#8217;t Lufthansa Fly The Boeing 747 On Short-Haul Flights?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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> once served as the backbone of commercial airline long-haul fleets all over the globe. The versatile four-engine aircraft was the first to enter service with a widebody configuration, and the aircraft is often credited with helping bring travel to the masses. Due to its gigantic size, the jumbo jet pushed per-seat operating economics to the point that air travel slowly became accessible to the middle classes. The aircraft today, however, is a rarer find at airports than it once was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The airline only deploys this aircraft on long-haul sectors.<\/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":[396,476,121,1003,734],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-european-union","category-legacy-carriers","category-lufthansa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242476","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=242476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242477,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242476\/revisions\/242477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}