{"id":363435,"date":"2020-07-18T10:09:17","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T04:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=363435"},"modified":"2020-07-18T10:14:14","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T04:44:14","slug":"coronavirus-impact-british-airways-bids-farewell-to-boeing-747s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/coronavirus-impact-british-airways-bids-farewell-to-boeing-747s\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus impact: British Airways bids farewell to Boeing 747s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cqueen of the skies\u201d will no longer don the red, white and blue of the Union Jack after British Airways (BA) retired its fleet of Boeing 747s on Friday as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. <\/p>\n<p>The airline, which was the world\u2019s biggest operator of the 747-400 model, had already planned to ground its fleet of 31 of the iconic wide-bodied jets in 2024. But the pandemic, which has seen most of the world\u2019s planes grounded for the best part of three months, hastened its journey into retirement. <\/p>\n<p>BA\u2019s predecessor, British Overseas Airways Corporation , first used the 747 in 1971. The plane \u2014 affectionately referred to as either the \u201cjumbo jet\u201d or the \u201cqueen of the skies\u201d \u2014 became a symbol of the new age of mass travel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cqueen of the skies\u201d will no longer don the red, white and blue of the Union Jack after British Airways (BA) retired its fleet of Boeing 747s on Friday as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. The airline, which was the world\u2019s biggest operator of the 747-400 model, had already planned to ground its fleet of 31 of the iconic wide-bodied jets in 2024. But the pandemic, which has seen most of the world\u2019s planes grounded for the best part of three months, hastened its journey into retirement. BA\u2019s predecessor, British Overseas Airways Corporation , first used the 747 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363435","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}