"THE 747," Quartz recently proclaimed, "is going extinct." It was a bold stand; the day before it predicted the plane's demise, Korean Air ordered 10 new ones. The President of the United States is also a fan; a new fleet of presidential planes set to debut later this decade will likely be composed entirely of 747s. So Boeing's iconic jumbo isn't dead yet. But it is not so crazy to say that it is headed for retirement.
