British Airways operated a total of 101 Boeing 747 aircraft across three variants before waving goodbye to them in April 2020. G-BNLH, named 'City of Westminster,' was leased to Qantas from 2000 ...

Over 35 years ago, Captain David Massey-Green flew Qantas' first Boeing 747-400 nonstop from London Heathrow Airport (LHR) to Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport(SYD). Three senior Qantas captains ...

A hole the size of a small car in the underside of a Qantas jumbo jet carrying 346 ... a rapid descent over the South China Sea The Boeing 747-400 was cruising at 29,000 feet when a loud bang ...

With an average fleet age of a teenager, Qantas doesn’t get rid of aircraft too often. But when it does, other airlines and ...

Passengers on a recent Qantas Airways flight from Sydney to Johannesburg might've noticed some very unusual cargo on board. The airline patched a fifth engine onto the wing of the Boeing 747 ...

It was the first Jet Age aircraft bought by Qantas. The Boeing 747 cut flying time to less than a day in 1971. The famous 747 jumbo jet flew from Australia to London via a single stop in Singapore.

the Boeing 747. Over 49 years, from 1971 to 2020, Qantas operated 64 of the four-engine jets known as the “Queen of the Skies”. Two remain in Australia – at the Historical Aircraft ...