{"id":433492,"date":"2026-05-21T07:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T21:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-delta-air-lines-let-go-boeing-777\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T07:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T21:30:18","slug":"no-regrets-why-delta-air-lines-easily-got-rid-of-the-boeing-777","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=433492","title":{"rendered":"No Regrets: Why Delta Air Lines Easily Got Rid Of The Boeing 777"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delta Air Lines is one of the largest US carriers, operating a mainline fleet of both Boeing and Airbus models. However, one plane cannot be found anymore among Delta&#8217;s fleet: the mighty Boeing 777. Delta&#8217;s decision to retire its<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255120\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Boeing 777<\/span><\/span> fleet in 2020 may have seemed shocking to some, as the &#8216;Triple-Seven&#8217; is an incredibly popular aircraft among numerous US and non-US operators alike, with over 1,700 built. However, the move was strategic and ultimately beneficial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delta retired its Boeing 777s in 2020 without regret, favoring more cost-efficient Airbus jets.<\/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":[396,398,737,565,240,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-boeing","category-boeing-777","category-delta-air-lines","category-north-america","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433492","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=433492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433495,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433492\/revisions\/433495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=433492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=433492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=433492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}