{"id":395571,"date":"2026-03-29T05:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T19:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-some-airlines-still-operate-4-engine-jets\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T05:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T19:00:17","slug":"why-do-some-airlines-still-operate-4-engine-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=395571","title":{"rendered":"Why Do Some Airlines Still Operate 4-Engine Jets?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The question about why some airlines operate quad-engined commercial airliners is mostly a legacy question. No commercial quad-engined passenger aircraft are produced today, and there are no concrete plans to bring them back, apart from the supersonic <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"3525583\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/boom-overture\/\"  >Boom Overture<\/a><\/span>. Barring <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2039126\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/quad-engine-passenger-jets-production\/\" >Russia producing more obsolete quad-engined Il-96 passenger jets<\/a><\/span>, the last passenger quad-jets were delivered in 2021 as Emirates received the last Airbus A380.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airlines mostly operate legacy quadjets because they are affordable or they have no other choice. Emirates is unusual for just loving its A380s.<\/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":[396,398,399,1776],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-boeing","category-boeing-747","category-quadjets"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395571","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=395571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":395572,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395571\/revisions\/395572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=395571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=395571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=395571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}