{"id":299558,"date":"2025-10-11T10:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T00:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/aircraft-replaceing-delta-air-lines-boeing-717\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T10:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T00:00:17","slug":"the-aircraft-set-to-replace-delta-air-lines-iconic-boeing-717","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=299558","title":{"rendered":"The Aircraft Set To Replace Delta Air Lines&#8217; Iconic Boeing 717"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a world where airlines are trying to be as efficient and economical as possible, carriers prefer to operate a fleet of new and modern aircraft, giving them the operational advantages newer jets have to offer, but also bragging rights about maintaining a young average fleet age. A possible exception to this could be the US-based carrier,<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254993\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/delta-air-lines\/\"  >Delta Air Lines<\/a><\/span>, and its continual operation of the Boeing 717s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delta&#8217;s 717 is soon to be retired, and the airline will be replacing the type&#8217;s operations with the latest generation A220 aircraft family.<\/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":[434,396,398,603,565,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus-a220","category-aircraft","category-boeing","category-boeing-717","category-delta-air-lines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299558","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=299558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299559,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299558\/revisions\/299559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=299558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=299558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=299558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}