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 ...

After flying more than 50 of the jumbo jets for almost fifty years, Qantas will retire the last of its Boeing 747s by 2020. Kent was a senior managing editor at CNET News. A veteran of CNET since 2003 ...

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 plans ...

Conversion of a former Qantas 747-400 into a flying testbed for Rolls-Royce is lagging behind schedule as the status of the progamme remains unclear. R-R In October 2019 announced it had acquired the ...

Rolls-Royce has acquired a former Qantas Boeing 747-400 as part of a $70 million investment that will see the aircraft converted into a testbed for evaluating new engines and engine technology.