{"id":325225,"date":"2025-11-29T16:17:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T06:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/md-11-fleet-peak-holiday-grounding-new-year\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T16:17:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T06:17:23","slug":"md-11-fleet-to-miss-peak-holiday-rush-as-grounding-extends-into-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=325225","title":{"rendered":"MD-11 Fleet to Miss Peak Holiday Rush as Grounding Extends Into New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"3525616\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/mcdonnell-douglas-md-11\/\"  >McDonnell Douglas MD-11<\/a><\/span> is expected to remain grounded throughout the Christmas peak travel period, facing lengthy inspections and repairs. This will see many aircraft in both the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"256309\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/fedex\/\"  >FedEx<\/a><\/span>and <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"739448\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/ups-airlines\/\"  >UPS Airlines<\/a><\/span> fleets remain on terra firma for the rest of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas chaos looms as the MD-11 fleet faces unexpected delays. Will they make it off the ground in time?<\/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":[396,420,1523,4965,16569,9103,423,1524],"tags":[18662],"class_list":["post-325225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-faa","category-fedex","category-grounded-fleet","category-manufacturers","category-mcdonnell-douglas-md-11","category-united-states","category-ups-airlines","tag-ups-flight-2976"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325225","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=325225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325226,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325225\/revisions\/325226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=325225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=325225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=325225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}