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And farewell to F-GTUI, Corsair's last 747...



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Air France are planning a flypast over Paris to mark the retirement of their A380 fleet. I have it on very good authority they're planning to fly either two or three in formation, pending approval.

The end of the 747 with Virgin Atlantic:

Boeing 747-443, 1277, G-VROY, Virgin Atlantic Airways, ferried 24jun20 MAN-CQM for part out & scrap

Strong rumours from usually reliable sources stating that BA have retired their entire 744 fleet as of 2200BST today. No more retro livery BOAC or Landor sightings at LHR

Sadly, over the last 2 weeks, KL, QF and BA have retired their entire 747 passenger fleets. I think the only major carrier left flying a passenger version is LH.

I just thought back to all the pax 747s I've flown on - I came up with 22 different airlines across all passenger variants except the -8: NA NW TW PA UA AR EI BA VS SK LH KL SN AF AT SA SW SQ MH QF NZ FJ

JLAmber wrote:Strong rumours from usually reliable sources stating that BA have retired their entire 744 fleet as of 2200BST today. No more retro livery BOAC or Landor sightings at LHR

I heard on a Big Jet TV stream yesterday that one of their A380s had come back to LHR. Wonder if that's related.

PA110 wrote:I just thought back to all the pax 747s I've flown on - I came up with 22 different airlines across all passenger variants except the -8: NA NW TW PA UA AR EI BA VS SK LH KL SN AF AT SA SW SQ MH QF NZ FJ

That's some going

ShanwickOceanic wrote:That's some going

1. I am very old
2. I've been flying since I was 2 years old.

Also... I forgot one... it's actually 23 different airlines.
SS (Corsair - pre TUI) 747-200 and 747SP

Very sad to see the BA747`s go, especially after the expensive refits etc.
Looks like I won`t get to fly in a 747,before they are all gone.

Going out with a kang...


https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-53509361

Something of a significant retirement this week when TUI 752 G-BYAY flew BHX - BGR - MZJ for conversion to freight ops. This aircraft was the last survivor of the true Britannia fleet:

Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) has officially retired its last A340. The A340-300 left Copenhagen for Tucson in the US earlier today. The aircraft, named Astrid Viking, will land in a few hours and will stay in Tucson for only a short time before heading to its final home at Pinal Airpark, Arizona.

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Been on that one... CPH-IAD back in 2012.

Virgin Atlantic's last 747, G-VROY, currently en route to LAS. Then off to Pinal and troop carrier duty.

Retired in 1996 but preserved at Brutingthorpe in the UK, the first Super Guppy F-BTGV will be scrapped as it is "too big to be saved"

Article in french here

G-VROY on its way to vegas to be stored!!



https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/g-vroy#265f177b again another fricking airline leaving us in the dust

as we speak... 12:10pm EST Dec 21/2020

Air France 777-200ER F-GSPV. Three others are said to be retired by may.

The last KLM pax 747 flew from AMS to TEV for storage.



Maybe the very last landing for this airframe:

https://twitter.com/aeropuerteruel/status/1371450399153082372?s=21

that sucks...