The Venezuelan charter airline Venezolana currently has the oldest commercially operational passenger 737-200.

UK route as it evolved from tiny biplanes hopping 31 stops to large jetliners soon flying nonstop.

The luxury of the Golden Age of air travel is still alive and well in the first-class cabins of the world's leading airlines.

Clogged toilets forced AI126 to turn back—could better tech and passenger habits prevent the next in-flight disaster?

The first version of the Kangaroo Route was an airmail operation flown by Qantas Empire Airways, where both Qantas ... Qantas introduced the Boeing 707 in 1959. Thanks to its more powerful jet ...

Airlines like Pan Am, British European Airways ... Other developments in iconic aircraft include the Douglas DC-8, Boeing 707 ...

Death haunted the skies of Japan last week. Near towering Mount Fuji, a British Overseas Airways’ Boeing 707 fell from the sky, killing all 124 persons on board. Only the day before, a Canadian ...

But which are the oldest airlines still dominating the skies today ... In the early 1960s, Air India began purchasing the Boeing 707-420 planes that were kickstarting the jet age and became the first ...

In the 1950s, the British introduced the de Havilland Comet ... It took years—and the success of rival Boeing’s 707—for commercial jet travel to become the standard. The technology was ...