By Chenuka Elwitigala Manel Abeysekera was a trailblazing figure in Sri Lankan history, best known as the country’s first female career diplomat. In a field that was once the exclusive domain of men, ...

After decades of bailouts, strikes, and mismanagement, Italy finally pulled the plug on its beloved national carrier in 2021 and launched a completely new airline from the ashes. ITA Airways inherited ...

For 22 consecutive years, Alitalia never reported a single profit, hemorrhaging €11 billion while the Italian government poured in €15 billion trying to save it. What began as the glamorous "Wings of ...

Editor’s note: This story has been corrected to indicate the Boeing 747 “29000” is not being retired by the Air Force. President Trump became the last president to fly aboard one of the heavily ...

Through the heat haze, airplane tails rose from the desert. As I steered off the interstate toward Pinal Airpark, in Marana, Arizona, I got my first view of a corpse in full: a stark-white Boeing 747, ...

Now retired, the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) were a pair of planes designed to transport orbiters from their landing sites back to Kennedy Space Center throughout the Space Shuttle Program, one of ...

Deutsche Lufthansa AG is getting a $400 million holiday bonus from an aircraft that’s long been out of favor — the venerable 747, two of which it is selling to the US Air Force to support a new ...

The US Air Force announced plans Tuesday to purchase two Boeing 747-8 aircraft to support its future presidential airlift program, with an Air Force official confirming it would acquire the planes ...

The 747 jetliner needs extensive security modifications. Some members of Congress worry that President Trump will pressure the Air Force to do the work too quickly. By Eric Schmitt Reporting from ...

The ‘Alitalia’ brand might soon be given a more significant revival by successor carrier ITA Airways, with the airline’s new chief suggesting the former name has much stronger recognition, ...

A luxurious jumbo jet that the Defense Department said it had accepted as a gift from Qatar is chock-full of the glitz and grandeur President Donald Trump has shown a penchant for over the years.