{"id":373635,"date":"2026-02-21T23:31:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T13:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/video\/farewell-tri-jet-ups-is-retiring-its-iconic-md-11-fleet\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T23:31:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T13:31:17","slug":"farewell-tri-jet-ups-is-retiring-its-iconic-md-11-fleet-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=373635","title":{"rendered":"Farewell Tri-Jet: UPS Is Retiring Its Iconic MD-11 Fleet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The age of the trijet is one step closer to finally coming to an end, following confirmation from the UPS that it has retired its fleet of McDonnell Douglas MD-11 freighters that had previously been serving the company\u2019s airfreight operations. These three-engine widebodies were already on their way out, but the tragic crash in November has proven to be the last straw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>                                                                                                                                    The age of the trijet is one step closer to finally coming to an end, following confirmation from the UPS that it has r&#8230;<\/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":[396,476,9103,1524],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-mcdonnell-douglas-md-11","category-ups-airlines"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373635","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=373635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":373636,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373635\/revisions\/373636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=373635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=373635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=373635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}