{"id":301504,"date":"2025-10-14T21:16:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T11:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/edelweiss-retires-1-of-5-airbus-a340\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T21:16:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T11:16:31","slug":"edelweiss-air-retires-first-airbus-a340-as-a350-rollout-increases-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=301504","title":{"rendered":"Edelweiss Air Retires First Airbus A340 As A350 Rollout Increases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In recent years, a combination of age and shifting operational trends has resulted in the<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58499\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/airbus\/\"  >Airbus<\/a><\/span> A340 becoming increasingly obsolete in the modern commercial aviation sector. While Swiss leisure carrier Edelweiss Air has stuck with the quadjet longer than most, its withdrawal has now begun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swiss leisure carrier is replacing the aging quadjets with modern, fuel-efficient A350-900s for long-haul operations.<\/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":[426,789,396,476,6821,120,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus","category-airbus-a340","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-edelweiss","category-europe","category-switzerland"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301504","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=301504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301505,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301504\/revisions\/301505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}