UPS took delivery of its first 747-400 freighter this morning at the company’s global air hub in Louisville, Ky. The cargo carrier will use the jet on long-range international routes, it said in ...

United Parcel Service Inc. said it ordered eight Boeing Co. 747-400 aircraft valued at as much as $1.9 billion as international deliveries grow. UPS, based in Atlanta, didn’t disclose terms of ...

UPS spokeswoman Kristen Petrella said the Boeing 747-400 — which has a wingspan of 212 feet and length of 232 feet — went down at about 8 p.m. in Dubai. Flight 6 was en route to the UPS hub in ...

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Boeing Co. BA, +2.03% said Monday that Japan Airlines International Co. has increased the number of 747-400 converted freighters it has on order to eight, with an ...

The 747-400 will be the first freighter in the UPS fleet with a hinged nose. The aircraft’s nose-loading capability is ideal for air freight, allowing for extra large or extra long shipments.

The addition of N633UP increases UPS’s total number of 747s to 41, including 13 747-400Fs and 28 of the -8F variant. That leaves just four open orders for Boeing’s last 747s to come off the ...

The Boeing 747-8 is the newer, bigger, and better version of the previous 747-400. UPS started purchasing the 747-8s in 2017, with the intention of buying 28 in total.

UPS has received its first Boeing 747-400, which is being initiated on longhaul international flights. The aircraft, the first in the UPS fleet to feature a hinged nose for oversized shipments, has ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Pilots on board a UPS cargo plane faced radio problems and smoke in the cockpit as they struggled to maintain altitude before crashing into the desert outside Dubai ...

Boeing has 18 747-400ER freighters left to deliver, along with 18 747-400 freighters. Those jets will be a bridge to production of the 747-8. The Intercontinental will carry about 50 more ...

UPS testing Boeing 747-8 freighter. Expand. A cargo-carrying configured Boeing 747-8 Freighter jetliner is under construction on the manufacturing floor in Everett, Washington, June 1, 2015.