{"id":431858,"date":"2026-05-19T07:01:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T21:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/true-boeing-777x-less-engine-thrust-jet-replace\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T07:01:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T21:01:18","slug":"is-it-true-that-the-boeing-777x-needs-less-engine-thrust-than-the-jet-its-replacing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=431858","title":{"rendered":"Is It True That The Boeing 777X Needs Less Engine Thrust Than The Jet It&#8217;s Replacing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"60363\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/boeing\/\"  >Boeing<\/a><\/span> first unveiled the 777X, much of the attention focused on the aircraft&#8217;s folding wings, stretched fuselage, and enormous <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"277689\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/general-electric-ge9x\/\"  >General Electric GE9X<\/a><\/span> engines. Boeing marketed the aircraft as the next major evolution of the long-haul twinjet, promising 20% lower fuel burn per seat, a 40% smaller noise footprint, and <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/true-boeing-777x-operating-costs-20-percent-lower-airbus-a380s\/\" >lower operating costs than competing aircraft<\/a>. However, hidden inside those headline claims is one particularly interesting detail that often gets overlooked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boeing 777X is set to enter commercial service in 2027.<\/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":[396,398,737,669,5559,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-boeing","category-boeing-777","category-boeing-777x","category-general-electric-ge9x","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431858","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=431858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431859,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431858\/revisions\/431859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=431858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=431858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=431858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}