Jetskipper From United States of America, joined Jun 2001, 352 posts, RR: 0 Reply 1, posted (10 years 3 months 1 week 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 1399 times:
They used to fly the 747-200 from ORD to NRT and also had a daily ORD-MSP flight also using the -200 to reposition aircraft for the NRT flight.
Chuj From United States of America, joined Oct 2000, 58 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (10 years 3 months 1 week 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 1399 times:
NW used to fly ORD-AA), Japan">NRT with the 747-200 I believe. Don't know when they abandoned the route...maybe when AA started flying the route as well?
Flyboy7974 From United States of America, joined Jan 2003, 1540 posts, RR: 2 Reply 3, posted (10 years 3 months 1 week 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 1384 times:
this is true, the flight number, not a/c, then continued on ord-bos in a 727, before ua and aa competed on the route
Gigneil From United States of America, joined Nov 2002, 16215 posts, RR: 88 Reply 4, posted (10 years 3 months 1 week 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 1381 times:
DIA From United States of America, joined Jan 2001, 3273 posts, RR: 30 Reply 5, posted (10 years 3 months 1 week 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 1354 times:
True. I saw it with my own eyes as I taxied past it in a UA DC-8-71 back in the late 1980's.
DIA
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STT757 From United States of America, joined Mar 2000, 16276 posts, RR: 52 Reply 6, posted (10 years 3 months 1 week 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 1354 times:
NWA flew Chicago Ohare to Tokyo continuing onto SIN for many many years on a 747-200, they ended the flights when AA launched ORD-AA), Japan">NRT about 3-4 years ago.
American757 From United States of America, joined Mar 2001, 475 posts, RR: 2 Reply 7, posted (10 years 3 months 1 week 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 1317 times:
did aa ever operate the 747 outta ord to dfw , maybe to like reposition the plane for another flight or sumthin, sorta like mentioned with nwa and the ord msp flight
DIA From United States of America, joined Jan 2001, 3273 posts, RR: 30 Reply 8, posted (10 years 3 months 1 week 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 1291 times:
AmtrakGuy From United States of America, joined Sep 1999, 500 posts, RR: 0 Reply 9, posted (10 years 3 months 1 week 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 1237 times:
Back in 1974, I flew on NWA 747 to Tokyo (not NRT) with a stop in Seattle. The flight was JFK - ORD - SEA - Tokyo (don't remember which airports).
Also, I flew many times on NWA 747 from Miami to MSP with a stop over in ORD. that was until around 1978.
JohnJ From United States of America, joined Jun 2000, 1620 posts, RR: 3 Reply 10, posted (10 years 3 months 1 week 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 1228 times:
I love old timetables, and it just happens that I have a September 4, 1984 Northwest Orient timetable. The following 747 flights were offered out of ORD:
Flight 437 to MSP, dep 3:00 p.m. arr. 4:05 p.m., Daily
Flight 118 to JFK, dep 3:15 p.m. arr. 6:15 p.m. , Tuesday only
Flight 3 to NRT, dep 11:50 a.m. arr 2:40 p.m., Daily
Here are some other interesting 747 services Northwest offered in this timetable - this is not all-inclusive, just flights I thought were a bit odd from today's viewpoint:
American757 From United States of America, joined Mar 2001, 475 posts, RR: 2 Reply 11, posted (10 years 3 months 1 week 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 1217 times:
i asked about the aa 747 because once me and my mom took a flight down (i was just a baby) and she recalls it having like five middle seats, and like three on the outside or w/e i may be off on the outside seats but the middle was five, are there any that have five in the middle
HlywdCatft From United States of America, joined Jan 2001, 5321 posts, RR: 7 Reply 12, posted (10 years 3 months 1 week 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 1205 times:
In 1984 before DTW was a NW hub, I knew someone who flew from Seoul direct to ORD on a 747 before transfering onto a 727 to come to DTW.
Isn't that odd? Transferring on NW at ORD to go to DTW?
Flyguy1 From United States of America, joined Jun 1999, 1691 posts, RR: 4 Reply 13, posted (10 years 3 months 1 week 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 1176 times:
Did NW have a hub at JFK back than? Seems like they had quite a few flights to Europe.
Lortab 7.5mg From United States of America, joined Nov 2001, 805 posts, RR: 12 Reply 14, posted (10 years 3 months 1 week 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 1164 times:
I flew ORD-MSP quite a few times in the early '90s, usually on the upper level of the 747.
DIA From United States of America, joined Jan 2001, 3273 posts, RR: 30 Reply 15, posted (10 years 3 months 1 week 1 day 16 hours ago) and read 1142 times:
American757: The DC-10 usually had five middle seats.
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Twa902fly From United States of America, joined Dec 1999, 3048 posts, RR: 4 Reply 16, posted (10 years 3 months 1 week 1 day 16 hours ago) and read 1119 times:
As far as i know NW still flies NRT-GUM with a 742
Maiznblu_757 From United States of America, joined Mar 2002, 5112 posts, RR: 52 Reply 17, posted (10 years 3 months 1 week 1 day 16 hours ago) and read 1109 times:
AA Operated a couple 747SP aircraft out of DFW until about 1992. The flights went to Narita.
DIA From United States of America, joined Jan 2001, 3273 posts, RR: 30 Reply 18, posted (10 years 3 months 1 week 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 1100 times:
This was a regular 747 in 1981 at DFW. . .just for the record they were there every now and then.
American757 From United States of America, joined Mar 2001, 475 posts, RR: 2 Reply 19, posted (10 years 3 months 1 week 1 day 14 hours ago) and read 1062 times:
it could have been the dc ten then ,,,,,my mom just says "it was big with five seats in the middle"
Ord From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 1370 posts, RR: 1 Reply 20, posted (10 years 3 months 1 week 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 939 times:
In the early 1980s Northwest also had a scheduled 747 nonstop between Chicago and Washington Dulles. I can't remember, but this may have been only a few days a week and not daily.
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