{"id":414701,"date":"2026-04-27T07:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T21:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/miles-per-gallon-boeing-747-analysis\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T07:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T21:30:18","slug":"how-many-miles-per-gallon-does-a-boeing-747-get-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=414701","title":{"rendered":"How Many Miles Per Gallon Does A Boeing 747 Get?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With its four engines, 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> uses vast quantities of fuel, burning through 3,800 gallons every hour. This high fuel burn amounts to 0.9 gallons used every second and 0.19 miles per gallon (mpg). In this article, we will detail the Boeing 747&#8217;s mpg further, including the mpg per traveler, and how this compares to travel in a car and in modern airliners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 747 uses vast quantities of fuel, burning through 3,800 gallons every hour. This high fuel burn is equivalent to 0.19 mpg<\/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-414701","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\/414701","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=414701"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414703,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414701\/revisions\/414703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=414701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=414701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=414701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}