Where can you still fly on a Boeing 747?

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• Roehydes Finest says:

  2 Apr2 April 05:36

  I’m certain it is my childish memory playing tricks on me, but there seemed a time that whenever there was mention of a plane in the news (ill or good) that it was a “Boeing 747”, such that I just assumed all planes were called this!

• Nick says:

  2 Apr2 April 06:36

  My first ever transatlantic flight was in a World Airways 747 from LGW back in the early 1980’s.

  I remember them having a free raffle onboard for a transatlantic flight ticket.

  • Bagoly says:

    2 Apr2 April 08:19

    My first was Braniff in 1978 – the Big Orange!

• Stuart says:

  2 Apr2 April 08:05

  Are the Russians still operating them? I remember being in Paphos during Covid times and seeing multiple Rossiya 747s come in and out daily.

  • AndyC says:

    2 Apr2 April 13:14

    Yes – Rossiya Airlines (an Aeroflot subsidiary) has nine B747-400 in its fleet. Saw one parked at a Thai airport toward the end of last year.

  • AndyC says:

    2 Apr2 April 13:17

    Yes they are – saw a Rossiya 747-400 parked at a Thai airport as recently as the end of last year.

• sman9 says:

  2 Apr2 April 08:20

  Fond memories of flying First between LAS-LHR in the 747 in seat 1K (lower deck nose), where you were technically sitting in front of the pilots who were on the upper deck.

• Richie says:

  2 Apr2 April 08:40

  My best was a very empty Ansett Australia flight from Sydney to Hong Kong where the onboard chef made food to order for us in economy.

• LEWIS says:

  2 Apr2 April 09:18

  Has loop hole to avoid air passenger duty ay inverness been closed? Or do I have to call?
  Tried to book online and price is same

  • TGLoyalty says:

    2 Apr2 April 19:50

    The new RFS pricing means it makes no diff

• The real Swiss Tony says:

  2 Apr2 April 09:27

  We re flying to SIN this summer on LH. Ended up booking via MUC as it was slightly cheaper but the dealbreaker was that the upper deck on the FRA flight was close on booked out – only odd seats here and there. Main deck empty but the better transit experience at MUC won in the end.

  Will indeed be a shame – but can’t imagine the UD of those 748s is anywhere near as calm as the old BA 744 fleet used to be.

  • flyforfun says:

    2 Apr2 April 20:55

    I was due to fly LCY-FRA-SIN-BNE just before xmas. A little bit of snow in FRA caused the LCY-FRA to be cancelled 4 hrs before departure. Gutted that I missed out the 747. Still waiting for LH to refund me for extra leg room seats. Ended up being rebooked (after standing in line for nearly 5 hours at LCY) LHR(on SQ)-SIN-SYD-(on Jetstar as SLF)BNE four days later.

    On the way back we connected at Munich. Very impressive 1hr connection. Shame it was to LHR and not LCY for us. The A350 was very comfortable in Y though! Extra legroom helps of course.

• Panda Mick says:

  2 Apr2 April 09:31

  I used to love sitting upstairs in ECONOMY on Virgin, with your own dedicated cabin crew just for the 25 of you or so 🙂

  • SteveW says:

    2 Apr2 April 13:23

    Ridiculous decision by Virgin to put those seats upstairs. The premium pax in front of the econ seats would have to wait for the unwashed to get off before getting dowstairs plus there were only 2 loos upstairs. The seat config also made it more difficult for the larger hipped crew (and pax) to get past.

    • BB says:

      2 Apr2 April 14:05

      Trying hard not to take offence at phrases like “unwashed” and “gate lice”. Does the ability to pay more for a flight mean the passenger is cleaner?

      Some of us fly economy because we’re paying for our own tickets and for the price, would prefer to take four trips instead of the one.

      We don’t like in the 1920s anymore. A common sense of humanity will consign these phrases to the bin, where they belong.

      • Mike says:

        2 Apr2 April 16:02

        @BB +1 Virtue signal point has been added to your account. Once you reach 10 virtue signal points your social credit score will be high enough to move to Brighton. An additional 5 points and you will be supplied with purple hair dye and one nose ring so your peers will recognise your valiant internet speech policing efforts. Well done comrade.

    • Mike says:

      2 Apr2 April 14:06

      Yes, I remember those because my wife and son were bumped from our row of three seats to accommodate a family of five, splitting us up with my wife and son upstairs and me sitting with the parents in the seats we’d booked (the only reason we flew economy back is the other cabins were full when we booked). The tossers gave me the evils for the entire flight back from the US because they felt they shouldn’t have to sit next to anyone. Shocking service, check-in agent was terrible, didn’t even apologise when he said he had had to move us (well my wife and son). It took me over 10 years before I booked with Virgin again.

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