{"id":243581,"date":"2025-06-29T14:22:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T04:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/delivery-delays-korean-air-a380-747-retirements\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T14:22:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T04:22:23","slug":"delivery-delays-postpone-this-airlines-airbus-a380-boeing-747-retirements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=243581","title":{"rendered":"Delivery Delays Postpone This Airlines&#8217; Airbus A380 &amp; Boeing 747 Retirements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"256203\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/skyteam\/\"  >SkyTeam<\/a><\/span> partner, Korean Air, will have to continue operating its Airbus A380 and Boeing 747-8 double deckers for a few more years, as the airline continues to grapple with ongoing aircraft delivery delays. The airline&#8217;s Chief Executive Officer, <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/korean-air-debut-new-livery-brand-refresh\/\" >Walter Cho<\/a>, had hoped to <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/korean-air-airbus-a380-retirement\/\" >retire these aircraft by 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Korean Air is waiting for the delivery of additional Airbus and Boeing aircraft, which has resulted in the airline retaining the A380 and 747.<\/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":[898,396,476,399,1094,1844],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus-a380","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-boeing-747","category-delays","category-korean-air"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243581","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=243581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243582,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243581\/revisions\/243582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}