It will replace the 747 with the smaller Boeing 777-300ER, which has fewer seats. Korean Air's 777 carries up to 291 passengers, depending on the configuration, compared with 368 seats on the ...

Korean Air selling 5 Boeing 747-8s to Sierra Nevada to develop new USAF Doomsday Planes. Sale to leave Korean Air with 4 ...

If you want to fly on a Boeing 747, you might plan to go this year, as operators seek to modernize their fleets. The final passenger jet version, a 747-8, was delivered to Korean Air in 2017.

It is the deadliest aviation disaster to hit South Korea since 1997, when a Korean Airlines Boeing 747 crashed in the Guam jungle, with the loss of 228 lives. Jeju Air flight 7C 2216 from Bangkok ...

Although its numbers have thinned, ten airlines still operate the enormous, graceful Airbus A380 for international luxury ...

As an aircraft type reaches the end of its service life, examples of it flying commercially become rarer and rarer (the ...

In 1981, A Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 jetliner overshot the runway while taking off from Manila’s international airport and skidded to a stop at the edge of a major highway. The accident ...

Korean Air is expected to stop flying the longest Boeing 747 passenger flight in March 2025. Airlines globally have been phasing out the massive jet in favor of less costly widebodies. Only four ...

All 349 people on both airplanes are killed. August 6, 1997 – A Korean Airlines Boeing 747 crashes in the Guam jungle and 228 people are killed. September 26, 1997 – A Garuda Indonesia ...