{"id":370950,"date":"2026-02-17T20:13:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T10:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/uk-no-boeing-747-passenger-flights-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T20:13:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T10:13:58","slug":"end-of-an-era-uk-has-no-boeing-747-passenger-flights-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=370950","title":{"rendered":"End Of An Era: UK Has No Boeing 747 Passenger Flights In 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recent schedule changes have confirmed that Korean Air will not be bringing its Boeing 747-8 double-decker widebody quadjets back to the United Kingdom this year. The type had initially been slated to serve the route between the carrier&#8217;s main hub at Seoul<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"293333\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/incheon-international-airport\/\"  >Incheon International Airport<\/a><\/span>(ICN) and London Heathrow (LHR), but, now, the Boeing 777-300ER will take its place, meaning that the &#8216;triple-seven&#8217; serves the route all year round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For now, the jumbo jet will only serve the country on a cargo basis.<\/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":[396,398,399,1844,15477,701],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-boeing","category-boeing-747","category-korean-air","category-sf-routes-analysis","category-united-kingdom"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370950","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=370950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":370951,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370950\/revisions\/370951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=370950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=370950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=370950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}