{"id":395539,"date":"2026-03-29T03:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T17:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-did-boeing-build-747-partial-2nd-deck\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T03:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T17:30:17","slug":"why-did-boeing-build-the-747-with-only-a-partial-2nd-deck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=395539","title":{"rendered":"Why Did Boeing Build The 747 With Only A Partial 2nd Deck?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"59013\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Boeing 747<\/span><\/span> is one of the world&#8217;s most iconic planes, and it is easily recognizable thanks to its frontal hump, which often contains a luxurious lounge or additional seating in passenger variants. It is an old bird, having first been delivered with what became <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"739459\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Pan American World Airways<\/span><\/span> in January 1970, but the most recent passenger variant of the massive quadjet, the 747-8 only recently ceased production. The final aircraft was delivered to Atlas Air in January 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boeing 747 has a partial upper deck, used as seating and lounge space, but what&#8217;s the story behind its distinctive hump?<\/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-395539","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\/395539","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=395539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":395540,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395539\/revisions\/395540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=395539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=395539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=395539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}