Qantas's final Boeing 747 departed from Australia for the last time on Wednesday en route to retirement, marking the end of a nearly 50-year chapter with the aircraft that started in 1971.

After 50 years of flying, Qantas’ last remaining Boeing 747 passenger plane departed Australia for the final time on Wednesday and left a special message for everyone in the sky — a drawing of ...

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A Qantas Boeing 747-400, registration VH-OEJ in front of media at Sydney Airport for the last time as it retires from service on Wednesday. James D. Morgan/Getty Images hide caption ...

Australia's Qantas Airways will retire its Boeing 747 from the San Francisco-Sydney route on December 4, 2019, the carrier announced today. It will replace the graceful old 353-seat "Queen of the ...

Qantas may have retired its Boeing 747 fleet, but for aviation enthusiasts already missing the “Queen of the Skies” the Australian airline offered up something to sweeten the deal – bar carts.

Australia-based Qantas International said Tuesday that it plans to retire its last Boeing 747 by 2020, two years or more earlier than previously planned. The airline also placed an order for six ...

Another airline will soon clip the wings of its fleet of Boeing 747, sending the jumbo jet into retirement on an earlier-than-expected retirement. Australia’s largest airline, Qantas, announced ...

SINGAPORE — A Qantas Boeing 747 with 431 people on board landed safely in Singapore late Friday after an engine caught fire minutes after it took off from the city-state, the airline and a ...

SINGAPORE -- A Qantas Boeing 747 returned to Singapore with an engine problem shortly after takeoff Friday, local TV stations reported. Channel 5 and Channel News Asia stations did not give ...

Qantas may have retired its Boeing 747 fleet, but for aviation enthusiasts already missing the “Queen of the Skies” the Australian airline offered up something to sweeten the deal – bar carts.