SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- United Airlines flew the last flight of its venerable, four-engine 747 jet. Call it a victim of changing times and more efficient aircraft, but the airline sent it out in style.

The queen of the skies, aka the Boeing 747, first entered commercial service with Pan Am in 1970. At the time, air travel was expanding rapidly, and airlines needed far more capacity to connect ...

The Federal Aviation Administration will take a closer look at safety at United Airlines after a string of nearly a dozen incidents this month, the airline said in a memo Friday. "Over the next ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - UAL Corp.'s United Airlines said on Thursday that it is retesting the altitude indicators on seven of its Boeing 747 jumbo jets after determining that test equipment at a ...