Yokes/forum/images/avatars/gallery/business/3.pngoffline17 Oct 21, 07:55
An aera ends, today LH Cargo is operating the last flight of an MD11. Last airframe is D-ALCC flying LH8161 JFK-FRA.
Will miss this view in FRA...
paul mcallister/forum/images/avatars/gallery/first/default.pngoffline17 Oct 21, 09:58
I wonder if they will be sold to another operator, or face the dreaded aircraft slicer? I hope they get a new home.
ANCFlyer/forum/images/avatars/gallery/first/user57/1.pngoffline(netAirspace ATC & Founding Member) 17 Oct 21, 10:39
I thought that was done years ago? Saw this and figured they were retired.
LET'S GO BRANDON!!!!
ShyFlyer/forum/images/avatars/gallery/first/user73/1.pngoffline(Founding Member) 17 Oct 21, 14:26
It's not the retirement flight, but still a worthy video. At least I hope so, as I haven't watched it yet. His other videos are great, so I don't have any qualms about this one.
Make Orwell fiction again.
Yokes/forum/images/avatars/gallery/business/3.pngoffline17 Oct 21, 21:13
paul mcallister wrote:I wonder if they will be sold to another operator, or face the dreaded aircraft slicer? I hope they get a new home.
Yes, some went to UPS and some to Western Global.
JLAmber/forum/images/avatars/gallery/first/user61/1.pngoffline(netAirspace ATC & Founding Member) 18 Oct 21, 19:58
ANCFlyer wrote:I thought that was done years ago? Saw this and figured they were retired.
Seasonal downtime. In Europe at least freight hauling had a lull for the 6-8 weeks after Christmas and quite a few operators used to park some of their fleet. Also happened with the bucket and spade pax operators - FR winter park a lot of aircraft across the UK. Things are different now of course and freight capacity is so stretched that the last LH MD-11 retirement was actually delayed by two days because there just weren't enough aircraft to meet demand.