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In June 2020, Alan Joyce stated that the remaining five Boeing 747-400ER aircraft will be retired by the end of June 2020 instead of by 4th quarter 2020 due to the pandemic. [ citation needed ] Qantas also stated that it is unclear if all of their 12 Airbus A380s will ever fly again and doesn't expect to return at least one of their A380s into ...
Boeing Defense, Space & Security rolls out the first of 351 production T-7A Red Hawk training aircraft, a $9.2 billion contract for the USAF. [40] Due to budget cuts, NASA announces that the SOFIA airborne observatory project will end by October 2022, and the aircraft being used as SOFIA, one of the final Boeing 747SP aircraft in service, will ...
As of January 2025, there were 427 Boeing 747 aircraft in active airline service, comprising 1 747-100, 2 747SPs, 16 747-200s, 1 747-300, 256 747-400s, and 151 747-8s. These aircraft are listed by airline operators and variant in the following table.
For over 50 years, Boeing's "Queen of the Skies" has been the world's most easily recognised jetliner with its humped fuselage and four engines. British Airways (BA) had been planning to retire ...
The Boeing 747 has become one of the most iconic airplanes ever built since it was introduced in 1970. The double-decker aircraft pioneered the use of the term "jumbo jet." ... A handful of Boeing ...
On June 28, 1998, United Airlines Flight 863, a Boeing 747-400 flying United's regularly scheduled transpacific service from San Francisco International Airport to Sydney Airport was forced to shut down one of its right-wing engines and nearly collided with San Bruno Mountain while recovering from the engine failure.
Korean Air is expected to stop flying the longest Boeing 747 passenger flight in March 2025. Airlines globally have been phasing out the massive jet in favor of less costly widebodies.
On 26 November, the Danish Ministry of Health confirmed that it was working on a COVID-19 "vaccine passport", which would likely not only work as proof of vaccination for air travel, but for other activities such as concerts, private parties and access to various businesses, a perspective welcomed by the Confederation of Danish Industry. The ...