Which airline was first to fly the Boeing 747 in 1970?
Pan Am inaugurated the Boeing 747 between New York and London on Jan. 22, 1970. (The aircraft used for this flight, the Clipper Victor, was the same one destroyed at Tenerife in 1977.) 2. You are flying from Schiphol to Narita to Kansai to Kimpo. Where are you going, exactly? These are the airports for Amsterdam, Tokyo, Osaka and Seoul. With the opening of the new Incheon International, however, Kimpo is now the domestic airport for Seoul, so arriving there from Osaka would not be easy. A weather diversion, let’s say. 3. What was the world’s first commercial jetliner? The British-built de Havilland Comet, which debuted between London and Johannesburg in 1952, was the first jet airliner. The Soviets came next with the Tupolev TU-104, and the Americans later followed with the Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8. 4. Two well-respected national airlines, each in existence more than seven decades, declared bankruptcy and ceased operations in the past year. What were they? Swissair and Sabena (the l
