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As of November 2024, there were 429 Boeing 747 aircraft in active airline service, comprising 1 747-100, 2 747SPs, 16 747-200s, 1 747-300, 258 747-400s, and 151 747-8s. [1]
Later, Delta acquired 747s again in 2008 as part of its merger with Northwest Airlines, although it retired the Boeing 747-400 fleet in December 2017. [127] International flights bypassing traditional hub airports and landing at smaller cities became more common throughout the 1980s, thus eroding the 747's original market. [128]
It still ranks as one the busiest airports in the world, according to the Airports Council International rankings. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] In 2019, O'Hare had 919,704 aircraft movements, averaging 2,520 per day, the most of any airport in the world in part because of a large number of regional flights. [ 15 ]
The latest nation to take ownership of the Queen of the Skies is Egypt, which was the mystery buyer of an old 747 from Boeing in 2021.
Originally named Chicago Air Park, [8] Midway Airport was built on a 320-acre (130 ha) plot in 1923 with one cinder runway mainly for airmail flights. In 1926, the city leased the airport and named it Chicago Municipal Airport on December 12, 1927. [1] By 1928, the airport had twelve hangars and four runways, which were lit for night operations ...
Boeing declined to detail how many employees worked on the 747 in its final year, but Smith said all were transferred to other jobs or voluntarily retired. The last 747 rolled out on Dec. 7 ...
Gary/Chicago International Airport (IATA: GYY, ICAO: KGYY, FAA LID: GYY) is a joint civil-military public airport in Gary, in Lake County, Indiana, United States. It is three miles northwest of the city center [ 2 ] of Gary, and 25 miles (40 km) southeast of the Chicago Loop .
According to people in the know, Boeing looks like it’s discontinuing its iconic 747 jumbo jet. The news comes from a Bloomberg report that cites “people familiar with the matter,” who say ...