{"id":308204,"date":"2025-10-28T12:00:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T02:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/where-delta-air-lines-boeing-747s-come-from\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T12:00:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T02:00:29","slug":"where-did-delta-air-lines-boeing-747s-come-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=308204","title":{"rendered":"Where Did Delta Air Lines&#8217; Boeing 747s Come From?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><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> was the final US passenger airline to operate the Boeing 747, bringing its operations with the type to an end in 2017. However, the<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> carrier&#8217;s relationship with the iconic aircraft dates back much further than that, with Delta Air Lines having previously flown the 747 in the 1970s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delta Air Lines retired the Boeing 747 for good in December 2017.<\/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":[396,476,399,565,503,640,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-boeing-747","category-delta-air-lines","category-northwest-airlines","category-skyteam","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308204","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=308204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308205,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308204\/revisions\/308205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=308204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=308204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=308204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}