{"id":29290,"date":"2020-07-17T16:34:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T13:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/coronavirus-forces-british-airways-to-retire-boeing-747-jets\/"},"modified":"2020-07-17T16:34:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T13:34:00","slug":"coronavirus-forces-british-airways-to-retire-boeing-747-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/coronavirus-forces-british-airways-to-retire-boeing-747-jets\/","title":{"rendered":"#Coronavirus forces British Airways to retire Boeing 747 jets"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Coronavirus forces British Airways to retire Boeing 747 jets<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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July 17, 2020 |<\/span> 9:34am <\/p>\n

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\n British Airways is retiring its fleet of Boeing 747s.<\/span>
\n Nicolas Economou\/NurPhoto via Getty Images<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

\n The coronavirus crisis has forced British Airways\u2019 jumbo jets into early retirement.<\/p>\n

The airline is grounding its fleet of Boeing 747s four years ahead of schedule because the pandemic has depressed demand for air travel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is sadly another difficult but necessary step as we prepare for a very different future,\u201d British Airways Chairman and CEO Alex Cruz said in a statement Friday.<\/p>\n

The airline said it had already started phasing out the 747s and planned to retire the last of them in 2024. They eat up a lot of fuel and were 23 years old on average, British Airways said, far older than the average age of about 13 years among major US carriers.<\/p>\n

But COVID-19 accelerated that timeline. The pandemic has devastated airlines with travel restrictions and lockdown measures, and British Airways doesn\u2019t expect the industry to recover until 2023 or 2024.<\/p>\n

BOAC, which later became British Airways, started flying the double-decker jet known as the \u201cQueen of the Skies\u201d from London to New York in 1971. British Airways added the modern 747-400 model to its fleet in 1989 and still owns 31 of them as of this year, making it the world\u2019s largest operator of that plane.<\/p>\n

British Airways said it plans to run more flights on \u201cmodern, fuel-efficient aircraft,\u201d such as the Airbus A350 and Boeing\u2019s 787, in its quest to achieve \u201cnet zero carbon emissions\u201d by 2050. But Cruz called the decision to retire the storied 747s \u201cheart-breaking\u201d and said they will \u201calways hold a special place in our hearts at British Airways.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo many people, including many thousands of our colleagues past and present, have spent countless hours on and with these wonderful planes \u2014 they have been at the center of so many memories, including my very first long-haul flight,\u201d he said.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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