The Real Reason Why The Queen Of The Skies Wasn’t A Perfect Fit For American Airlines
The Boeing 747 was history’s best-selling widebody aircraft for decades, only losing this title to the Boeing 777 in 2018, and Boeing built 1,574 examples across 55 years of production. While the 747 has long been popular worldwide, excitement among US airlines was fairly short-lived. This included American Airlines, now the nation’s second-largest carrier, which hasn’t flown the Boeing 747 in almost 35 years. United Airlines and Delta Air Lines retired their final Boeing 747s in the 2010s.