{"id":397194,"date":"2026-03-31T21:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/the-12-airlines-that-still-operate-4-engine-passenger-jets\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T21:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:00:16","slug":"the-12-airlines-that-still-operate-4-engine-passenger-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=397194","title":{"rendered":"The 12 Airlines That Still Operate 4-Engine Passenger Jets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planespotters.net\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >Planespotters.net<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cirium.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >Cirium<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ch-aviation.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >ch-aviation<\/a>, and airline fleet pages, there are now only a little more than a dozen airlines remaining around the world flying quad-engined passenger jets. This excludes aircraft operated by charter airlines (including Atlas Air and this fleet of five Boeing 747-400s) and governments operating quad-jets as VIP or military aircraft. Importantly, it also excludes aircraft operated by cargo airlines, which now operate most of the world&#8217;s remaining commercial quadjets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only three families of passenger quadjets remain in service around the world with a contracting number of commercial 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":[426,898,396,397],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus","category-airbus-a380","category-aircraft","category-analysis"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397194","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=397194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397195,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397194\/revisions\/397195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=397194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=397194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=397194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}