{"id":359119,"date":"2026-01-31T06:31:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T20:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-delta-american-ditched-md11-so-fast\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T06:31:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T20:31:17","slug":"the-plane-that-failed-why-delta-and-american-ditched-the-md-11-so-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=359119","title":{"rendered":"The Plane That Failed: Why Delta And American Ditched The MD-11 So Fast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The McDonnell Douglas MD-11 has been back in the news this week, with the United Parcel Service confirming on Tuesday that it had <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/farewell-tri-jet-ups-retiring-md11\/\" >retired its fleet of MD-11F trijets<\/a> that had previously served under the UPS Airlines arm. These veteran cargo aircraft had already been grounded for several months, following <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/ups-mcdonnell-douglas-md-11-crash-takeoff-louisville\/\" >the crash of one upon departure from Louisville, Kentucky<\/a>, in November of last year. However, <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/trust-trijet-fedex-refuses-to-retire-md11\/\" >FexEx plans to keep its MD-11s active<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The early 2000s marked the end of the line for the widebody trijet at both of these leading US carriers.<\/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":[396,476,636,9103,15477,536,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-american-airlines","category-mcdonnell-douglas-md-11","category-sf-routes-analysis","category-united-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359119","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=359119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359120,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359119\/revisions\/359120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=359119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=359119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=359119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}