{"id":404162,"date":"2026-04-12T18:38:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T08:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/air-france-airbus-a330-retirement-date\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T18:38:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T08:38:19","slug":"adieu-a330-air-france-sets-retirement-date-after-quarter-century-of-service-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=404162","title":{"rendered":"Adieu, A330: Air France Sets Retirement Date After Quarter Century Of Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French carrier <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254866\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/air-france\/\"  >Air France<\/a><\/span> has set a firm retirement date for its subfleet of Airbus A330-200 aircraft, which are the oldest widebody aircraft in its fleet. Starting in summer 2027, the airline will deploy larger and more modern <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255412\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/boeing-787-9\/\"  >Boeing 787-9<\/a><\/span> or <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"739536\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/a350-900\/\"  >Airbus A350-900<\/a><\/span> aircraft, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cirium.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >Cirium<\/a> data showing its A330s are not scheduled to fly beyond Q1 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The few remaining A330s will be retired by next summer, and their flights are set to be replaced by Airbus A350-900s and Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners.<\/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":[1719,1572,1123,396,2638,120,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-france","category-airbus-a330-200","category-airbus-a350-900","category-aircraft","category-boeing-787-9","category-europe","category-france"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404162","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=404162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":404163,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404162\/revisions\/404163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=404162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=404162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=404162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}