{"id":364048,"date":"2020-07-22T10:44:52","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T05:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=364048"},"modified":"2020-07-22T10:44:52","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T05:14:52","slug":"boeing-747-and-airbus-a380-end-of-jumbos-of-the-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/boeing-747-and-airbus-a380-end-of-jumbos-of-the-skies\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing 747 and Airbus A380: End of jumbos of the skies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slow descent<br \/>\nThe Boeing 747&#8217;s slow descent into retirement from commercial service just got steeper with British Airways&#8217; announcement Friday it would be pulling the jumbo jet from the skies as the coronavirus pandemic forces it to cut back operations and cut costs.<\/p>\n<p>BA&#8217;s announcement follows moves by a number of other airlines that have retired their 747s and their Airbus A380, another jumbo-sized four-engine jet made by Boeing&#8217;s European rival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slow descent The Boeing 747&#8217;s slow descent into retirement from commercial service just got steeper with British Airways&#8217; announcement Friday it would be pulling the jumbo jet from the skies as the coronavirus pandemic forces it to cut back operations and cut costs. BA&#8217;s announcement follows moves by a number of other airlines that have retired their 747s and their Airbus A380, another jumbo-sized four-engine jet made by Boeing&#8217;s European rival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364048","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}