The good times did not last for Delta and its 747, however. The airline decided in 1974 that the jets were too big and began trading them back to Boeing. The "Queen of the Skies" was all but gone ...

Delta Air Lines once had up to 31 Boeing 747s in its fleet but retired them to make way for the Airbus A350-900. One retired Boeing 747-100 has been preserved at the Delta Flight Museum in Atlanta.

For the first time in 48 years, you can’t buy a ticket on a US airline to fly on a Boeing 747. On January 3, Delta Air Lines Flight 9771 touched down in Marana, Arizona, an arid boneyard for ...

With that, nearly 50 years of passenger 747 service with U.S. based airlines will come to an end. TODAY IN THE SKY: Staffing issue: Delta's last Boeing 747 round-trip pushed back Need a break?

For a half-century, Boeing Co. mechanics in a sprawling factory north of Seattle have riveted together aluminum panels into the familiar hump-backed form of the 747 jumbo jet. Test pilots then put ...

Delta Air Lines is retiring Boeing’s 747s from its ... vice president and general manager of Boeing’s 747 program. “The queen of the skies simply made us all better,” Dickinson said.

A Boeing 747 is one of the most popular exhibits ... The museum is housed in a pair of historic hangars at Delta Air Lines headquarters on the northern edge of Atlanta's airport.

The iconic Boeing 747 jumbo jet will fly its final commercial flight for a U.S. passenger airline with a Delta Air Lines flight Tuesday. Delta, the only remaining U.S. passenger airline to fly the ...

The Boeing 747 may be fading from the skies, but Delta Airlines is betting it has not faded from the hearts of high-end customers. That’s why Delta and partner AMEX have launched the new Delta ...

Employees lined the ramp at LAX, waving orange wands as the 747 made its late-night departure to Detroit. Delta Air Lines is preparing to say goodbye to its own fleet of iconic Boeing 747s later ...

They feasted on a 747 themed cake. The retiring Boeing (NYSE: BA) 747 jumbos, which Delta inherited after taking over Northwest Airlines, will be replaced by a fleet of new Airbus A350 jets ...

Although Delta Air Lines flew its last Boeing 747 service in 2017, its SkyMiles frequent flyer program members can still earn miles on flights operated by the iconic Boeing 747 and Airbus A380 ...