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

British Airways operated a total of 101 Boeing 747 aircraft across three variants before waving goodbye to them in April 2020. G-BNLH, named 'City of Westminster,' was leased to Qantas from 2000 ...

Over 35 years ago, Captain David Massey-Green flew Qantas' first Boeing 747-400 nonstop from London Heathrow Airport (LHR) to Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport(SYD). Three senior Qantas captains ...

A hole the size of a small car in the underside of a Qantas jumbo jet carrying 346 passengers ... a rapid descent over the South China Sea The Boeing 747-400 was cruising at 29,000 feet when ...

UK route as it evolved from tiny biplanes hopping 31 stops to large jetliners soon flying nonstop.

Qantas is celebrating 90 years of international flights. It’s 90 years to the day when it carried two people on a DH86 ...

The inaugural service was commanded by chief pilot Captain ‘Torchy’ Uren and on board were four New Zealand-born cabin crew ...

Passengers on a recent Qantas Airways flight from Sydney to Johannesburg might've noticed some very unusual cargo on board. The airline patched a fifth engine onto the wing of the Boeing 747 ...

and Qantas, has been swapping 747s for smaller twin-engines like Boeing’s 777 and 787 and the soon-to-be-flying Airbus A350 XWB (“XWB” for “extra wide-body”). “The 747 is plummeting ...

It was the first Jet Age aircraft bought by Qantas. The Boeing 747 cut flying time to less than a day in 1971. The famous 747 jumbo jet flew from Australia to London via a single stop in Singapore.