Passengers on a recent Qantas Airways flight from ... very unusual cargo on board. The airline patched a fifth engine onto the wing of the Boeing 747-400 jumbo jet. The engine was destined ...

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

As an ambassador for Qantas airlines, he remembered learning to fly the 747-400. "[It was] the toughest programme that any commercial pilot will ever have to endure," he said. Elsewhere in the ...

QantasLink is now operating four of the 29 A220s it ordered from Airbus, and a fifth is expected to arrive before the end of ...

Qantas replaced the now-retired Boeing 747-400. While the airline inaugurated Melbourne-Dallas flights in December 2022, the ...

Australian airline Qantas has bid farewell to its last Boeing 747 aeroplane with one final flourish - drawing its logo, the flying kangaroo, in the sky. Dozens gathered at Sydney Airport on ...

United serves the 3,184 nautical mile (5,897 km) route three times weekly, winter seasonally. New York is the largest US point-to-point market, with the carrier spreading risk by targeting traffic ...

the 747 story began with a request from the head of Pan American World Airways, CEO Juan Trippe, for a larger jet than anything currently in production. Airlines had gotten a taste of the jet age ...