{"id":259424,"date":"2025-07-31T03:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T17:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-only-4-passenger-airlines-fly-boeing-747\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T03:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T17:00:17","slug":"why-do-only-4-passenger-airlines-fly-the-boeing-747","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=259424","title":{"rendered":"Why Do Only 4 Passenger Airlines Fly The Boeing 747?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2026922\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/korean-air-sells-5-boeing-747s-sierra-nevada-usaf-13-billion-doomsday-plane-program\/\" >it has sold five of its Boeing 747-8s to Sierra Nevada Corporation<\/a><\/span>Only four airlines around the world still operate aircraft from the Boeing 747 family, also known as the &#8216;Jumbo Jet,&#8217; as passenger aircraft, and those airlines want to retire them as soon as feasible. At the beginning of 2024, only three airlines operated the Boeing 747 as a regularly scheduled passenger aircraft, but by 2025, that number had increased to four,<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2040682\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-long-boeing-747-remain-flying\/\" >highlighting that the phase-out of aircraft is not always strictly linear<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to capacity constraints, four airlines around the world continue to operate scheduled passenger flights with the Boeing 747-400 and 747-8.<\/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":[396,398,399,1017,876,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-boeing","category-boeing-747","category-boeing-747-400","category-boeing-747-8","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259424","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=259424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259429,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259424\/revisions\/259429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=259424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=259424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=259424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}