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.

and Pan Am operated the first commercial flight on October 26, 1958, when its Boeing 707 named "Clipper America" took off from New York's Idlewild Airport, and landed at Paris Le Bourget Airport 8 ...

The Convair 880 made its first flight for Delta in 1960 ... On the other hand, the Boeing 707 could seat between 174 and 195 passengers, and its MTOW varied between 257,340 and 333,600 lbs.

Hong Kong's flag carrier Cathay Pacific operates around 180 aircraft. What is the oldest of its passenger aircraft that is ...

The flight marks the sixth inaugural journey of a crewed spacecraft in U.S. history Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Her work ...

Boeing's Starliner capsule will remain ground-bound for a while longer yet. Last June, Starliner launched on its first-ever crewed flight, which sent NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni ...