Before buying a “safe” new airplane from an unethical company like Boeing, consider all the retired airplanes sitting in the desert in the hopes of finding a new forever home. Adopt, don’t shop.
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Hey look, it’s a beautiful plane, don’t get me wrong. The absolute quintessence of 90s travel, but I just don’t wanna fly in one. At least they get to live on as fire fighting planes!
I’m old school, I miss the 747-100 and -200 planes with the spiral staircases to the upper deck (though they were a bitch when pulling up a rollaboard!).
United was still flying them up until the mid ‘90s at least. The shorty upper deck was J class seating, 4 rows, 2x2. (Crew rest behind)
I spy a couple of MD-11s, and those blanked-out 747s (ex Cathay Pacific?) seem to be either the -100 or -200, which were my favourite for F or J class, though dragging your roll abord up the spiral staircase was always a small pain.
Those ex-Cathay ones are definitely freighters; pretty sure they’re -400s with the winglets removed. They had some -200 freighters too but they had a bare metal livery instead of the white one!
I’ve toured airline training centers (Done the slide and the raft), airline headquarters, closed to the public Boeing facilities, multiple maintenance facilities (Brussels, Austrian, SkyWest), so this really is one of my last aviation bucket list items
Some of them are because they have no choice if they want to continue to expand, but most of these stored aircraft sitting in the desert with an uncertain future are there because they’re simply not efficient and competitive in the current market anymore
Some of the planes in this picture just might. MD11s been coming back out of the desert pretty regularly for a year or so. But because of the ex Lufthansa MDs there I suspect these are parts birds at VCV. To support the flying MD11s.
Air France used to fly the 744 between CDG and YUL. I'm sad they don't anymore. But I'm kind of curious to try out the A350 for the first time on that route on Saturday.
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An angel.....
United was still flying them up until the mid ‘90s at least. The shorty upper deck was J class seating, 4 rows, 2x2. (Crew rest behind)
Gay bsky would have so much fun and as class representative I promise we would be on our best behavior
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We hollow it out.
We live in it. And turn that airplane into the gayest oasis in Atlanta.