Why buy a gigantic Airbus A380 or Boeing 747 when you can squeeze more seats into a smaller plane instead? The Boeing 747 is arguably the most iconic plane of all time, and last year it became the ...

Emirates has a good mind to add more jumbos to its current fleet, but will it consider Boeing 747-8? Courting Emirates This isn't the first time Emirates has received a proposal for the 747-8. Last ...

It has a wider cabin, composite wings with folding wingtips and powerful GE9X engines. There are two variants, the 777-9, ...

The Airbus A380 and the Boeing 747 are two of the most recognizable aircraft in the skies today, although their numbers are diminishing, and their era of being the most dominant widebody jets in the ...

UPS’ order Thursday for 14 firm and 14 option Boeing 747-8Fs raises an interesting question: as the era of four engine commercial jetliners draws to a close, which of the two last survivors will die ...

Today's 747-400 passenger fleet totals 482 aircraft operated by 32 airlines, with the largest single cluster being the 57 aircraft operated by British Airways from London Heathrow. A further 10 ...

Airbus has conceded that the new 747-8 family could pose a threat to the A380 in the cargo market, but does not think it will have to make any design changes to see off the competition. “The new 747-8 ...

Boeing has struggled to sustain the 747 program within a rough market for the jumbo. An anemic number of orders have ground down to virtually zero in the last year. However, in a recent report, an ...