These days, flying often means earbuds in, tray table down and hours spent in near silence. You might sit beside someone for ...

With a cabin surface area of 5,920 square feet, the A380 can accommodate 199 more seats than the world's second-largest aircraft, Boeing's 747-8 ... a fully stocked bar, onyx countertops, and ...

Kate Folk’s novel offers a sharp satire of the dating scene through the story of a woman fixated on airplanes.

I was one of the first international journalists to be invited to Delhi to meet CEO Campbell Wilson and see how Air India's ...

Sweltering it was that humid Saturday night in Shanghai. The date was 22 June, 1993. I was sat in seat 2A of Northwest Airlines flight NW001 from Detroit to Tokyo, and the flight’s then-recently added ...

When the first Boeing 747 rolled from the hangar in Everett ... “How to meet the ground and how to meet the sky—the bottom and the top, in other words.” What is a jetliner to the eye ...

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 ...

On April 23rd, 1977, US-based legacy carrier Delta Air Lines operated what many expected would be the last Boeing 747 flight ever flown by the company. The carrier, after a brief stint of operating ...

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This year, the airline will begin retrofitting its existing fleet with Allegris cabins, beginning with its 19 Boeing 747-8is. Lufthansa is the largest operator of the B747-8i, with the fleet including ...