{"id":363188,"date":"2020-07-17T10:25:31","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T04:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=363188"},"modified":"2020-07-17T10:25:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T04:55:31","slug":"british-airways-to-retire-entire-747-fleet-after-pandemic-travel-slump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/british-airways-to-retire-entire-747-fleet-after-pandemic-travel-slump\/","title":{"rendered":"British Airways to retire entire 747 fleet after pandemic travel slump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK flag carrier British Airways is retiring its entire Boeing 747 &#8220;Jumbo Jet&#8221; fleet, it said Friday, following the huge hit to international air travel caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is with great sadness that we can confirm we are proposing to retire our entire 747 fleet with immediate effect,&#8221; the airline said in a statement to AFP.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is unlikely our magnificent &#8216;queen of the skies&#8217; will ever operate commercial services for British Airways again due to the downturn in travel caused by the COVID-19 global pandemic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 400-passenger 747 was launched by Boeing in 1970, and dominated international air travel and cargo over the following decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK flag carrier British Airways is retiring its entire Boeing 747 &#8220;Jumbo Jet&#8221; fleet, it said Friday, following the huge hit to international air travel caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. &#8220;It is with great sadness that we can confirm we are proposing to retire our entire 747 fleet with immediate effect,&#8221; the airline said in a statement to AFP. &#8220;It is unlikely our magnificent &#8216;queen of the skies&#8217; will ever operate commercial services for British Airways again due to the downturn in travel caused by the COVID-19 global pandemic.&#8221; The 400-passenger 747 was launched by Boeing in 1970, and dominated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}