As planned by Boeing, the 747 was long popular with cargo operators thanks to its unobstructed fuselage and vast capacity. It could take off with a payload of up to 970,000lbs.

The Boeing 747 is one of the primary long-range wide-body airplanes flown throughout the world. These four-engine passenger ...

Airlines could cut fares by packing over 300 passengers in the double-decker plane, which had the lowest seat-mile cost in the industry at the time. The world's first Queen of the Skies flew in ...

The danger is real. The deadliest air disaster in history occurred on a runway. On March 27, 1977, a KLM Boeing 747 collided with a Pan Am Boeing 747 on a runway on the Spanish island of Tenerife.

The Boeing 747, the US plane that revolutionised air travel, has been given a regal send-off in the skies over Washington State. Atlas Air, an American cargo airline, took delivery of the last 747 ...

SCHIPHOL, AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS - 2018/11/11: KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Boeing 777-300. A Boeing ... [+] 777-300 of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines with registration PH-BVK is landing at Amsterdam ...

The Boeing 747 and Airbus A380 are giants of the skies but are gradually being retired. Only around 50 passenger Boeing 747s ...

The second Boeing 747-8 arrived in Dayton after a 12-hour flight from Seoul and will be converted to a ‘Doomsday’ aircraft at SNC’s Aviation Innovation and Technology Center. Sierra Nevada ...

Spirit AeroSystems, a key supplier to US planemaker Boeing, warned on Tuesday there was “substantial doubt” that the company would be able to continue as a going concern. Last month ...

Boeing on Friday said it's cutting 10% of its workforce, or about 17,000 employees. In a memo on Friday, CEO Kelly Ortberg announced the layoffs, writing that the aerospace giant must make "tough ...

SEATTLE (Reuters) -Boeing's U.S. West Coast factory workers accepted a new contract offer on Monday, ending a bitter seven-week strike that halted most jet production and deepened a financial ...

LISBON, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Air France-KLM (AIRF.PA), opens new tab wants to take part in the privatisation of Portugal's carrier TAP and is open to various options the government may offer ...