{"id":377633,"date":"2020-10-09T10:11:30","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T04:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=377633"},"modified":"2020-10-09T13:46:50","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T08:16:50","slug":"nice-knowing-you-london-heathrows-farewell-to-british-airways-jumbos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/nice-knowing-you-london-heathrows-farewell-to-british-airways-jumbos\/","title":{"rendered":"Nice knowing you: London Heathrow\u2019s farewell to British Airways\u2019 jumbos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British Airways\u2019 last two Boeing 747 planes at the airline\u2019s historic base of London\u2019s Heathrow Airport made their final flight Thursday, the fleet\u2019s retirement having been brought forward by the coronavirus pandemic. <\/p>\n<p>To mark the occasion, the two planes with their distinctive humps at the top, took to the skies one after the other for their journeys into retirement. No passengers were onboard. <\/p>\n<p>One went to the Kemble airfield in western England, and the other headed to the St. Athan airfield in south Wales. Combined, they had flown 104 million miles in their 47 years, carrying millions of customers for work and play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Airways\u2019 last two Boeing 747 planes at the airline\u2019s historic base of London\u2019s Heathrow Airport made their final flight Thursday, the fleet\u2019s retirement having been brought forward by the coronavirus pandemic. To mark the occasion, the two planes with their distinctive humps at the top, took to the skies one after the other for their journeys into retirement. No passengers were onboard. One went to the Kemble airfield in western England, and the other headed to the St. Athan airfield in south Wales. Combined, they had flown 104 million miles in their 47 years, carrying millions of customers for [&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":[196,130,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377633","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=377633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}