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Northwest A320's At NRT?

Vs744 From United Kingdom, joined Aug 2001, 677 posts, RR: 1
Posted (9 years 11 months 3 weeks 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 1930 times:

I was at Tokyo Narita yesterday and there were 2 Northwest A320's. One of them loaded with pax, and took off, the other was at a gate. Does anyone know where these fly to from NRT? and if it's US, isn't that quite a long flight for an A320??

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Wietse From Netherlands, joined Oct 2001, 3809 posts, RR: 57
Reply 1, posted (9 years 11 months 3 weeks 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 1905 times:

Dont know the location but its in asia. Smaller loads needed due to SARS. More economical than 747s or DC10s

Wietse

Wietse de Graaf

Flyinghighboy From Australia, joined Aug 2001, 744 posts, RR: 1
Reply 2, posted (9 years 11 months 3 weeks 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 1908 times:

Aren't they the ones that go to HK?

JAL777 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 3, posted (9 years 11 months 3 weeks 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 1895 times:

The Northwest A320's have replaced the regular Northwest 747's on the NRT-HKG route because of the decrease in demand.

IndustrialPate From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 4, posted (9 years 11 months 3 weeks 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 1890 times:

NW flies A320 on flights within Asia.

to/from TOKYO
Beijing*
Busan
Hong Kong*
Kaohsiung
Taipei

to/from OSAKA
Taipei*

* = these flights were recently, or shortly will be, downgraded to the A320. It's unclear when any of these destinations will again be upgraded to the B747. It's also rumored SPN and GUM will be downgraded to the A320 shortly.

[Edited 2003-06-07 13:19:54]

N754pr From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 5, posted (9 years 11 months 3 weeks 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 1885 times:

I think they do Taipei, Kaohsiung, Seoul and now Hong Kong. Apart from Hong Kong this is not due to SARS.

IndustrialPate From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 6, posted (9 years 11 months 3 weeks 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 1882 times:

I think they do Taipei, Kaohsiung, Seoul and now Hong Kong.

Actually ICN was recently upgraded to a B744 from a B742.

Ha763 From United States of America, joined Jan 2003, 3492 posts, RR: 6
Reply 7, posted (9 years 11 months 3 weeks 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 1865 times:

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The NW A320's have been flying in Asia for well over a year. They were sent to serve the Asian flights out of Japan that do not have the loads to warrant a 747 or DC-10.

Vs744 From United Kingdom, joined Aug 2001, 677 posts, RR: 1
Reply 8, posted (9 years 11 months 3 weeks 1 day 21 hours ago) and read 1853 times:

Thanks everyone! and there was me thinking they were flying (or attempting to fly them over to the US!)

Do they have a codesahre with a Japanese airline?

JAL777 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 9, posted (9 years 11 months 3 weeks 1 day 21 hours ago) and read 1841 times:

I think they have a codeshare with Japan Air System on some routes. You'll also see Continental flight numbers on those flights.

Pecoua From United States of America, joined Jan 2001, 298 posts, RR: 0
Reply 10, posted (9 years 11 months 3 weeks 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 1797 times:

Do these A320 have any inflight entertainment installed because of their special services??? I know NWs entire narrowbody fleet has no IFE.

Airbus Lover From Malaysia, joined Apr 2000, 3248 posts, RR: 10
Reply 11, posted (9 years 11 months 3 weeks 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 1794 times:

I belive the Asian NW A320s have better seat pitch and some drop down screens from what I heard.

IndustrialPate From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 12, posted (9 years 11 months 3 weeks 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 1778 times:

I know NWs entire narrowbody fleet has no IFE.

No, all of NW's B757 and 50 of their A320 have IFE systems, but NW doesn't utilize them on domestic flights. The A320 serving NRT are among the 50 with IFE systems and yes, NW does utilize them. Seat pitch is exactly the same in economy, although the planes have a watered-down WBC.

Snoopy From Switzerland, joined Oct 2001, 370 posts, RR: 0
Reply 13, posted (9 years 11 months 3 weeks 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 1777 times:

The ones that are currently based in NRT are:

N319US
N320US
N339NW
N340NW
N343NW
N344NW

Not sure if that's all of them

Cdgdtw From United States of America, joined May 2003, 200 posts, RR: 3
Reply 14, posted (9 years 11 months 3 weeks 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 1735 times:

A320 based in NRT serve GUM,TPE,PUS,KHH and HKG at the moment. No, there are NO IFE on the aircraft and FC is reduced to 12 instead of the usual 16 configuration. The KIX-TPE route is still served with 744 aircraft, a continuation of the DTW-KIX flight and as we know there are no plans to change this to an airbus. SIN was recently downgraded to a dc-10 and ICN upgraded to 744.

IndustrialPate From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 15, posted (9 years 11 months 3 weeks 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 1723 times:

Cdgdtw,

Better check PARS again... NRT-GUM and NRT-SPN will return to B742 and NRT-PEK and KIX-TPE will become A320. NRT-SIN will return to a B742 and NRT-PVG will become a DC-10. One of the NRT-HNL will be upgraded to a B744.

I know for a fact that the A320 have IFE in WBC even though it's watered-down version.

L.1011 From United States of America, joined Aug 2001, 2209 posts, RR: 10
Reply 16, posted (9 years 11 months 3 weeks 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 1704 times:

http://www.seatguru.com/northwest/A320I.shtml

Hkg82 From Hong Kong, joined Apr 2002, 1219 posts, RR: 1
Reply 17, posted (9 years 11 months 3 weeks 1 day 16 hours ago) and read 1660 times:

Well NW won't resume 742 services to HKG anytime soon, but at least they still fly here with the A320. Smile

Before SARS, was NW considering starting services to other Mainland China destinations (e.g. CAN?).

Hkg82.

UN_B732 From United States of America, joined Jul 2001, 4286 posts, RR: 5
Reply 18, posted (9 years 11 months 3 weeks 1 day 16 hours ago) and read 1636 times:

Where did the A320s come from??? HOw did they position them?
Did they take the American flags off of them?
They will need to be registered in Asia soon?
-UN

What now?

Clipper471 From United States of America, joined Jan 2002, 726 posts, RR: 0
Reply 19, posted (9 years 11 months 3 weeks 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 1593 times:

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After a search, I found the original 9-Dec-2001 post...

Northwest To Base 3 A320 In NRT For Asia Flight
http://www.airliners.net/discussions/general_aviation/read.main/669070/

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