With the Boeing 747 Jumbo out of production, the United States Air Force has confirmed it will purchase two ex-Lufthansa Boeing 747-8 aircraft. These are to be used as trainers and for spare parts, as ...

NTSB records show that a United Airlines plane in Houston, which slipped off a taxiway last year, lacked an advanced runway ...

While Boeing pioneered the widebody with the 747, it didn’t operate in a vacuum. Douglas (later McDonnell Douglas) and Lockheed Martin were both looking into widebody options as well, and in the wake ...

Boeing integrated multiple failsafes into the flight systems to prevent such an occurrence. If the wingtips are not extended ...

A Boeing 777-9 prepares to land at Al-Maktoum International Airport during the Dubai Airshow 2025 on November 17, 2025. Emirates ordered 65 Boeing 777X planes in a deal worth $38 billion, delivering a ...

American Airlines is in the midst of a consequential transformation, and executives at Skyview, the Fort Worth carrier’s headquarters, are aware of the need for urgency. The airline, which took flight ...

In terms of height, the 777-300ER stands roughly 61 ft tall (18.5 m), compared to the 787’s height of around 56 ft (17 m), ...

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It may be the darling child of heavy-lift cargo carriers around the world, but the consensus is clear. The MD-11's days look truly numbered.

Inside a tornado-hardened office in Texas, 1,700 American Airlines employees manage the carrier’s operations, responding to bad weather, plane trouble and ailing passengers. By Niraj Chokshi ...

There was a high level of tetchiness between Ireland and the US when it came to transatlantic aviation in the 1960s ...

The new plane "type” may refer to a shakeup in the airline’s seating configurations or perhaps amenity upgrades in its cabins ...