{"id":390966,"date":"2026-03-22T03:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T17:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-airlines-dont-want-the-boeing-747-anymore\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T03:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T17:30:17","slug":"why-airlines-dont-want-the-boeing-747-anymore-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=390966","title":{"rendered":"Why Airlines Don\u2019t Want The Boeing 747 Anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"3525559\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Boeing 747<\/span><\/span> is a dynamic aircraft that fundamentally revolutionized passenger and commercial aviation. Legacy operators of the Boeing 747 include United Airlines, British Airways, and Cathay Pacific, carriers that deployed the model on all of their highest-leverage global routes. An aircraft that revolutionized global air travel, the model connected destinations from all across the globe with affordable air service. A high-capacity airliner, the Boeing 747&#8217;s per-seat operating economics were virtually unmatched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The aircraft&#8217;s operating economics are fundamentally unappealing to legacy airlines.<\/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":[396,398,399,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-boeing","category-boeing-747","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390966","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=390966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390967,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390966\/revisions\/390967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=390966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=390966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=390966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}