British Airways has announced “with great sadness” that its remaining Boeing 747 jumbo jets will be ... from a primitive-looking London Heathrow to New York. From our morning news briefing ...

British Airways, the world's largest operator of Boeing's 747, said it would retire its entire jumbo jet fleet with immediate ... fuel-efficient aircraft such as its new A350s and 787s and expects ...

A Virgin Atlantic aircraft, too, once managed to achieve high subsonic speed in 2019 on a flight from Los Angeles to London.

Stretching out in my business class seat, glass in hand, I’m beginning to relax into the flight to New York when suddenly the ...

Not only did airlines appreciate the "jumbo ... 747-8 might never beat the fastest subsonic transatlantic world record set by ...

The carrier is expected to fly the 747 to New York ... production of the jet in December 2022 after 54 years and 1,574 units built. While the 747 was already leaving fleets before 2020 — with no US ...