The Boeing 747 program may have been officially ended by the planemaker, but the Queen of the Skies is still alive and well in the industry. Despite a dwindling number of commercial passenger ...

The Boeing 747 was once the mainstayof almost every airline's long-haul fleet. It was larger, more economical, and had a longer range than any aircraft in the world. But the 747-400 came out over ...

an airline analyst with the Teal Group in Washington, D.C. To assemble the wide-body (a 747-8 Intercontinental in the making), Boeing built the world’s biggest building. With a footprint of ...

including a year with the airline's shortlived Song low-cost brand. The aircraft, Delta Ship 6301, was the first Boeing 747-400 ever built and entered service with Northwest Airlines in 1989.