{"id":403121,"date":"2026-04-10T22:32:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T12:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/video\/why-lufthansa-is-retiring-its-remaining-airbus-a340s-boeing-747-400s\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T22:32:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T12:32:17","slug":"why-lufthansa-is-retiring-its-remaining-airbus-a340s-boeing-747-400s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=403121","title":{"rendered":"Why Lufthansa Is Retiring Its Remaining Airbus A340s &amp; Boeing 747-400s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lufthansa is on an ambitious path to ramp up profitability over the coming years and, as such, is in the process of phasing out its Airbus A340s and Boeing 747-400s to do just that. Famously, one of the few remaining major operators of the Queens of the Skies, Lufthansa\u2019s days as an avgeek\u2019s dream for spotting aircraft of a previous generation are numbered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>                                                                                                                                    Lufthansa is on an ambitious path to ramp up profitability over the coming years and, as such, is in the process of pha&#8230;<\/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":[789,396,476,1017,82,734],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus-a340","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-boeing-747-400","category-germany","category-lufthansa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403121","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=403121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":403122,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403121\/revisions\/403122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=403121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=403121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=403121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}