Where can you still fly on a Boeing 747?

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• Zain says:

  16 Mar16 March 05:29

  FRA-YYZ is operated by a 744 or 748 as well.
  Perhaps the most intriguing option could be FV – they’ve also got a mini fleet of 744s. Of course it’s dangerous but no different from heading into North Korea. Reg number RA73284 remains on my bucket list!

  • Bagoly says:

    16 Mar16 March 08:50

    Is that the one painted with a tiger’s face on the nose?

  • Peter says:

    16 Mar16 March 09:14

    I had to look up FV as I hadn’t encountered the abbreviation before. Turns out it is Rossiya, a Russian airline. You might prefer to travel in one of the 12 business class seats, as Wikipedia states that the B744 has 510 economy seats.

  • Kowalski says:

    16 Mar16 March 09:59

    Russian airline Rossiya only have one 747 in active service currently, which is RA-73289. It’s not the Caring for Tigers together Livery.

    The status of RA73284 is currently stored.

  • Bath Rd boycotter says:

    16 Mar16 March 21:35

    Another operator not mentioned in the article is W5, whose last remaining 744 is occasionally rostered onto their MHD service, including tomorrow night apparently. Sold out, alas.

    While we’re on pariah states, IR operate a 742 that seems to be on a twice monthly DWC rotation currently, with plenty of DOH and EVN appearances in the past year as well. Can’t seem to find any way to book it though. Perhaps used as a government charter or cargo service.

• Doc says:

  16 Mar16 March 06:46

  Got a trip to Buenos Aires with LH 747-8.
  Upstairs in exit row on way out and in the nose downstairs in row 1 on the way back.
  Reliving the 53A and 1A experience on BA 747s from bygone years!!!

• Earthman says:

  16 Mar16 March 08:18

  Lufthansa flew a 747 400 from Frankfurt to Toronto yesterday D-ABVU which returned overnight

• Dubious says:

  16 Mar16 March 08:28

  LH also use the 747-800 on SIN-FRA / FRA-SIN regularly too.

  • Paul says:

    16 Mar16 March 09:12

    I got offered one on a trip to SIN, but chose Singapore airlines because the Luff biz seats didn’t appeal to me on a 13 hour overnight flight

    • Dubious says:

      16 Mar16 March 10:34

      Good choice!

  • flyforfun says:

    16 Mar16 March 11:20

    I was booked on it as part of LCY-FRA-SIN-BNE(SQ) a few years ago. Our connecting flight to FRA was cancelled 4 hrs from departure due to snow in FRA. Spent 5.5 hours in a queue to get rebooked. We arrived at the counter with about 20 mins before the call centre in Germany shut for the night! Had tried online chat while in the line and they said there were no options that day and cut chat. They weren’t taking phone calls (hence why I went to the airport) and got rebooked with SQ LHR-SIN-SYD-BNE(JQ) four days later. I’m glad we’d booked a 3 week break at xmas. Didn’t realise at the time that we had the SYD-BNE leg and on JQ. Despite a 2.5hr connection we got to the gate with 10 mins to spare. Jetstar has no transfer facilities at SYD so had to schlep cases onto a bus and then queue for ages to check in again.

    On our return LH repaid the taxi fare to LHR but disputed the prepaid seat fees on the outbound. Had to go via the LH Flyertalk representative to get them to review the case. I had to supply them receipts for the fees that they could have pulled off the system themselves (I regenerated them) before they finally conceded and paid. Makes me a little wary to fly LH again, although the service on the return and smooth 60 min connection at MUN was good.

• George K says:

  16 Mar16 March 09:53

  Have been trying to see if there are any interesting redemption opportunities for a 747 – best I could see by buying a Lufthansa miles bundle but it still comes to quite a lot of money. I don’t really have any other Star Alliance pool of miles, but plenty of Amex MRs to convert if needed…

• Barrel for Scraping says:

  16 Mar16 March 10:59

  What’s first class like on the LH 747? We all know business is awful on Lufty

  • Rob says:

    16 Mar16 March 11:48

    First Class Terminal at FRA is cool, inc being driven to your plane. Seat bad. Food and drink excellent inc caviar service.

    • LittleNick says:

      16 Mar16 March 14:24

      Unless you’re on the new Allegris First which I saw reviewed by Nonstop Dan

• Bran says:

  16 Mar16 March 14:44

  I guess you forgot to mention the ultimate option…if we are enough lucky to be invited Donald’s guests on Air Force One 🙂

  • VC-25 boycotter says:

    16 Mar16 March 20:29

    Technically that would be a Boeing VC-25. I’d sooner put my milk first than accept an invite by the Orange One!

• Robert says:

  16 Mar16 March 16:02

  Along with Toronto/YYZ. Vancouver/YVR to Frankfurt has 747-400 service from March to October on Lufthansa.

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