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Many to never fly again. british airways is scrapping its entire fleet of 31 7a7s. klm, virgin and qantas also saying goodbye. covid had a devastating impact on the aviation industry. we are not anticipating seeing particularly long—haul passenger demand return out to 2024-2025. there isnt enough demand to justify the use of a very large aircraft. loyal operators of the 747 imagined their 7475 having another few years before they went into a gracious graceful retirement. instead, theyve just h...

Off as scrap metal. im on a voyage to witness the last days of the jumbo jet and trace the pioneers that, half a century ago, put this giant in the sky. archive: the first giant 747 is presented to the world. people thought that an aeroplane this big just wouldnt fly. a symbol of power — beast of burden, and shes carried over 5 billion of us across the planet. cheers! now, as boeing ends production... over radio: its with heavy heart that we take off on this last flight. ..covid—19 has writt...

For japans airways. with 550 seats, its even bigger than boeings 747. it costs $445 million. but because of the pandemic, its yet to carry a single paying passenger. the idea that youve bought an aircraft, and its parked up, not carrying passengers, really is the antithesis of business sense. it means you are losing money both in the value of the product, but also in keeping it fit to fly. some of those planes will come back into service, for the 747, in many cases, this is the end. british airw...

Admissions than they would see, they are turning whole floors we are talking about free movement into additional icu space, that is when we know we are in of people. here are some pictures a very, very challenging place. the light at the end from paris of the first train of the tunnel is the vaccine. the doctors union the bma has arriving from london on the first criticised the decision to give day after the uk has left the single the two jabs 12 weeks apart instead of 21 days, market. plenty of...

It‘s all hands on deck to get the kit boxed up and transported to the airfield, ready to go. and the team are there, itching to get cracking. so we are super excited. we‘re out at lilyfield and we‘re finally about to get to the plane out to thwaites divide. i can‘t wait to get out and start the next phase of the melt project. you can‘t fly straight to thwaites, there‘s no ice runway that can take these big planes. so the 1,300 milejourney is done in stages. thwaites divide is the pro...

And the baddest aeroplane on the block. this is it. rock music plays bruce dickinson from rock band iron maiden is a licensed 747 pilot. he understands why the president refused a smaller twin—engine jet. on this aeroplane, youve got four engines, the aeroplane will fly on one. so you can lose three. if youre the president of the united states and people are going to maybe shoot at you, then thats a good reason for having four. this is the first time ive seen this big boy! whoa! bruce was cert...

They‘re essentially boilers. they‘re like an oversized domestic boiler. heat the water, get it hot enough to melt the ice, put it down the hole. it‘s taken us what, five, six weeks to get here. huge amounts of resources have gone into bringing the fuel and all the stuff you need. how does it feel to be, kind of, the top of the... the cutting bit. there‘s a serious sense of responsibility. there‘s a huge amount of money, time and effort gone into this by a lot of people to get us here. ...

Saying goodbye? oh, well, it is emotional. you know, i have flown these for 20 odd years now, its just the scale of it is unbelievable. i remember the first time i actually came to fly it and walked around and thought, "wow, this is incredible. "how does it fly?" nearly 400 tonnes of it that gets up in the air. its incredible. bas india victor delta is checked and ready to go. 0nly memories fill her 345 empty seats. how is it going to be flying this off on its last flight? thats a really sad thi...

So, this is a 747 named after my father, juan t tripp. were christening the first pan am 747 to come off the line. do you remember this? it was a magnificent day. what did your father want to achieve with the 747? he believed in the 747, that that would be an opportunity to really develop new markets where people could fly for a much lowerfare. conveniently, trippes best friend was the boss at boeing, bill allen. they were close friends, they would go off on these fishing trips, two old friend s...