JetBlue777 From United States of America, joined Jul 2009, 1427 posts, RR: 1 Posted (1 year 10 months 1 week 4 days 8 hours ago) and read 2419 times:
and by rare I mean 5th freedom flights or one that involves rare A/C such as the A300, A310, 737 Classics, 747SP/-100/-200/-300, etc or an interesting airline. I am not familiar with Europe and will be visiting numerous European nations in 2012 and I'm looking for any suggestions at all. Preferably flights that aren't typical in the US or North America. I'd like to keep it within the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Scandinavia as we will be visiting those countries but if there's anything interesting, feel free to share it!
swissgabe From Switzerland, joined Jan 2000, 5265 posts, RR: 37 Reply 2, posted (1 year 10 months 1 week 3 days 23 hours ago) and read 2361 times:
Not the all the countries you wanted:
FRA-MAD vv with LA
FRA-GVA vv with KU (GVA is still close to France at least)
VIE-ZRH ow with KE
MAD-AMS ow with KE
I also found a PK flight on CDG-FRA on day 7 but it only appears in the timetable but not in the availability list. Might be without local traffic rights.
Out of ZRH we used to have lots of connections with FRA (UL), LON (HM), MAN (CX, SQ), AMS (CX, TG, SQ), CDG (SA) but all of them gone and changed to turn around only.
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photophil From Sweden, joined Apr 2011, 178 posts, RR: 1 Reply 4, posted (1 year 10 months 1 week 3 days 22 hours ago) and read 2344 times:
maybe you can try to get a flight with KLM on a Fokker70 oder Fokker100 before they go out of service. These planes are for sure not often found but KLM still offers many routes with them
deltamartin From Sweden, joined Dec 2010, 1059 posts, RR: 9 Reply 5, posted (1 year 10 months 1 week 3 days 22 hours ago) and read 2340 times:
The swedish airline Nextjet is the only operator in the world today who operates the ATP. They have several domestic routes flown with this aircraft. Maybe something to look in to.
debonair From Germany, joined Jan 2004, 2096 posts, RR: 4 Reply 10, posted (1 year 10 months 1 week 3 days 15 hours ago) and read 2245 times:
Quoting JetBlue777 (Thread starter): by rare I mean 5th freedom flights or one that involves rare A/C such as the A300, A310, 737 Classics, 747SP/-100/-200/-300, etc or an interesting airline.
Quoting JetBlue777 (Thread starter): I'd like to keep it within the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Scandinavia
Far too much to tell... What about:
1. TOR AIR aka SKY MIDDLE EAST flying A320 op. by BH AIR BULGARIA from London to Stockholm?! http://www.torair.com/
2. or what about HELLENIC IMPERIAL flying B737 op. by Aurelia of Lithuania from London to Athens? http://www.hellenicairways.com/
3. maybe VIKING HELLAS A320/MD83 from Frankfurt to Göteborg or Malmö? http://www.flyviking.gr/
4. fancy BIG ones? AIR CHINA A330 from MUC to ATH...
HT From Germany, joined May 2005, 6471 posts, RR: 27 Reply 11, posted (1 year 10 months 1 week 3 days 15 hours ago) and read 2237 times:
Quoting signol (Reply 9): F70s fly multiple times per day AMS-NWI, but the cost of a one-way is prohibitive. Unless you have some Skyteam (DL) miles to burn...
KL's F70's are in abundance, plying numerous routes to tthe UK, to Germany and many more places around - that it, as long as they do not go tech.
-HT
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HT From Germany, joined May 2005, 6471 posts, RR: 27 Reply 12, posted (1 year 10 months 1 week 3 days 14 hours ago) and read 2230 times:
Some more ideas:
What about Flying Loganair DHC-6 Twinotter between Glasgow and the island of Barra including landing on the beach ? Can be booked via flyBE's website but better be booked well in advance. If you should happen to stay on Barra for any reason, also a shorter roundtrip BRR - BEB (Benbecula) - BRR is possible (2 weeks ago 7 out of 10 pax on that flight BRR to BEB flew straight back to BRR w/o leaving the a/c).
Or fly along the coast of Norway on WF's multi-stop services like KKN (Kirkenes) to TOS with 5 stops on a Dash8-200. Other (shorter) flights also available, some runways no longer than 800 m.
-HT
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JetBlue777 From United States of America, joined Jul 2009, 1427 posts, RR: 1 Reply 14, posted (1 year 10 months 1 week 3 days 10 hours ago) and read 2195 times:
Quoting signol (Reply 1): Ethiopian fly ARN - FCO a few times a week
Kuwait fly FCO - CDG, usually on an A300
Thanks. I'm interested on flying with Ethiopian on the route mentioned, however, the flight time seems to be inconvenient, but I could make an exception.
Quoting swissgabe (Reply 2): VIE-ZRH ow with KE
MAD-AMS ow with KE
Nice.
Quoting B742 (Reply 3):
MUC-MAN vv with Singapore Airlines 77W is another to add to the list above.
I'd love to fly with SQ and of course the 77W.
Quoting debonair (Reply 10): 4. fancy BIG ones? AIR CHINA A330 from MUC to ATH...
Nice. Never knew this route existed, I'll look into that.
BasilFawlty From Netherlands, joined Jun 2009, 1249 posts, RR: 1 Reply 15, posted (1 year 10 months 1 week 2 days 22 hours ago) and read 2135 times:
Quoting Loran (Reply 7): Ideally that flight can connect to the Pakistan A310, flying FRA-AMS. I need to check which days though and if a connection is possible on Saturdays.
As far as I know PK does not have traffic rights on the FRA-AMS sector?
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- The ET flight ARN-FCO is operated by a 757, so that may not be so exciting for you, considering that 757s are
common in the US.
- 737 classics shouldn't be to hard to find. LH operates them, as do BA ex LGW. SK should also operate some
domestic Norway flights. You could combine that with a flight on the Wideroe Dash-8, as HT said. I'm sure that would
be a fascinating experience, as Norway is a very beautiful country (But sadly, one of the most expensive countries too!)
- SK operates the rare 736 on a lot of destinations from ARN and OSL, if that's what you would want.
- Sweden also offers quite much on the domestic side. Nextjet has the very rare ATP (as said before) and Skyways operates the Fokker 50. Golden Air operates Saabs (both 340s and 2000s) on domestic routes.
- Sun-Air operates the Dornier 328 (both the prop and the JET version) on some routes from BMA, including BMA-HEL and BMA-BLL.
- 747 classics would hard, if not impossible to fly on a intra-Europe hop.
- Brit Air (France) and Air Nostrum (Spain) operates the CRJ1000 on regional routes.
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