Korean Air has stolen the crown for the world’s longest current Boeing 747 scheduled passenger route from German carrier ...

T he Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet ruled the skies for over several decades as the largest passenger jet before the introduction of ...

Passengers love Boeing 747s and Airbus A380s, AKA the world’s biggest commercial jets, but they’re slowly being phased out.

Four Boeing 747-100s remain unscrapped around the world today, although none appear to be flight-worthy or will likely fly ...

The world's shortest 747 route measures just 579 NM, but the longest route is more than 10 times that, or 6,198 NM, to be ...

Buenos Aires was the final stop on Lufthansa's famous South American route launched in the 1950s. Originating from Hamburg, this itinerary involved multiple stops at Dusseldorf/Frankfurt, Paris, Dakar ...

A gigantic financial gamble at the start, the 747 paid off big for Boeing. Eighty-nine countries have used it to move people and freight (here leaving Anchorage, Alaska) around the globe.

While many airlines around the world have stopped operating the 747, the freighter version remains one of the great ...

it was the largest building by volume ever built. The 747 was imagined in the 1960s to meet a growing demand for air travel, with Pan Am asking Boeing to design a plane twice the size of the 707 ...