{"id":305627,"date":"2025-10-22T21:01:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T11:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/modern-aircraft-wing-designs-save-airlines-money\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T21:01:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T11:01:16","slug":"how-modern-aircraft-wing-designs-save-airlines-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=305627","title":{"rendered":"How Modern Aircraft Wing Designs Save Airlines Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wings are a vital part of the aerodynamic performance of aircraft. Their design has changed over the years and could change significantly in the future if truce-braced wings or blended wing bodies prove successful. This article will discuss the wings of subsonic commercial aircraft, but not those of supersonic aircraft like the<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"3525583\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/boom-overture\/\"  >Boom Overture<\/a><\/span> with its delta-shaped wing. The most significant way wings save money for airlines is by reducing drag and thereby fuel consumption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modern wings are mostly designed to reduce drag but also save on weight, and provide other benefits to fuel consumption for airlines.<\/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":[396,669,1874,2691],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-boeing-777x","category-winglets","category-wings"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305627","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=305627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305628,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305627\/revisions\/305628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=305627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=305627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=305627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}