{"id":312866,"date":"2025-11-07T10:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T00:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/boeing-747f-cost-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T10:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T00:00:17","slug":"how-much-does-it-cost-to-operate-a-boeing-747-freighter-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=312866","title":{"rendered":"How Much Does It Cost To Operate A Boeing 747 Freighter In 2025?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2046043\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/worlds-only-remaining-boeing-747-400s\/\" >Boeing 747 family of Jumbos proved to be a very popular ultra-large widebody freighter<\/a><\/span>. Most of the 747s still flying today are freighter variants or freighter conversions from passenger aircraft. Only a few disappearing <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"739374\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/747-400\/\"  >Boeing 747-400<\/a><\/span> passenger jets remain in service (mostly with Lufthansa). The vast majority of the over 150 orders Boeing received for its final modernized Boeing 747-8 variant were for purpose-built freighters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boeing 747-400 is now an aging aircraft with massive fuel and growing maintenance costs, but low capital costs.<\/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":[6177,396,1017],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-cargo","category-aircraft","category-boeing-747-400"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312866","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=312866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312867,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312866\/revisions\/312867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=312866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=312866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=312866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}