{"id":381759,"date":"2026-03-07T07:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T21:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-lufthansa-never-needed-passenger-boeing-777s-now\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T07:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T21:00:17","slug":"why-lufthansa-never-needed-passenger-boeing-777s-until-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=381759","title":{"rendered":"Why Lufthansa Never Needed Passenger Boeing 777s Until Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255195\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/lufthansa\/\"  >Lufthansa<\/a><\/span> had never really had a reason to add the Boeing 777 to its passenger fleet. Many global network carriers have begun the acquisition of Boeing 777 jets in order to capitalize on the jet&#8217;s impressive combination of range and fuel economy. Lufthansa, however, was not interested at all. The airline has already operated the ultimate high-capacity flagship, the Boeing 747, and used it to concentrate demand through major slot-constrained hubs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The German flag carrier has a unique set of operational needs.<\/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":[396,476,398,737,669,734,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-boeing","category-boeing-777","category-boeing-777x","category-lufthansa","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381759","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=381759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":381760,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381759\/revisions\/381760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=381759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=381759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=381759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}