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Jumbos retired: British Airways bids farewell to Boeing 747s

by Associated Press
| July 19, 2020 12:03 AM

LONDON (AP) — The “queen of the skies” will no longer don the red, white and blue of the Union Jack after British Airways retired its fleet of Boeing 747s on Friday as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

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