Airlines are constantly disposing of old aircraft and acquiring new ones. The reasons rarely have much—if anything—to do with ...

Some of the longest passenger planes in the world are real giants. Right now, the longest plane is the Boeing 747-8 at 250 ft ...

As an aircraft type reaches the end of its service life, examples of it flying commercially become rarer and rarer (the ...

Courtesy of Delta Air Lines According to the airline industry ... It is reported to use the fuselage of a Boeing 747-400 that was previously used for domestic flights in the U.S. and is expected ...

The chance of dying during a commercial flight has been dropping by a factor of two every decade since the 1960s, according to MIT researchers. The risk of a fatality from commercial air travel was 1 ...

Northwest ordered the original 100 variant, going on to order the 200B, 200F, and 400. A number of 747-400s passed onto Delta following the merger; however, all of these have since been retired. Delta ...

I earned 1 million points by completing the SAS EuroBonus challenge. Within one month, I flew 15 different SkyTeam airlines ...

In this video we take our time to soak up the Queen of the Skies vibes on a Lufthansa 747-400 flight from Seattle to ...

The Indian Defense Ministry has remained committed to receiving an additional Russian-made S-400 Triumf air defense system even as the ongoing conflict in Ukraine has resulted in delays with the ...

The aircraft went on to have a successful history, with 1574 planes eventually built. Perhaps the greatest tribute to the 60-year-old design is that over 400 Boeing 747 models are still in service.