DAL7e7 From United States of America, joined Jun 2004, 357 posts, RR: 4 Posted (8 years 8 months 1 week 6 days 20 hours ago) and read 11514 times:
I know there's been a post about the largest airport without 747 service, but what about the smallest airport with 747 service. SXM comes to mind because there's not much space there, but what about others?
Thanks in advance,
Trey in TVI
DAL7e7 is wondering... Do pilots take crash courses?
SW733 From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 6072 posts, RR: 10 Reply 1, posted (8 years 8 months 1 week 6 days 20 hours ago) and read 11296 times:
It depends, do you mean commercial or cargo? because a lot of small airports have cargo 747's (HSV comes to mind from personal experience), but nothing bigger than an MD80 in commercial
Christa From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 3, posted (8 years 8 months 1 week 6 days 20 hours ago) and read 11273 times:
Hey,
CWL handles around 2 million passengers a year and has a runway length of 7723ft or 2354m.. On a daily basis we get 737, 757, 767, A320, A321, ATR42, F70/100.. along with some other aircraft such as A330, 747, 777 and some business jets! http://www.cial.co.uk
Well here at CWL, we have a 747-200 service, courtesy of Travel City Direct, granted it fly's only once a week, but it's expected to fly at least 4 times a week next summer..
BTW, the routes it fly from CWL are CWL-SFB and LAS..
AlitaliaMD11 From Spain, joined Dec 2003, 4068 posts, RR: 15 Reply 4, posted (8 years 8 months 1 week 6 days 20 hours ago) and read 11205 times:
hey
SWF gets Atlas Air 747s and has a KLM 742 in storage. We tend to get AN-124s and An-225..... but it is an air force base so.... but the commercial service we don get anything bigger than an 727.
We also do get DC-8s from ARROW.
AMS From United States of America, joined Aug 2003, 1689 posts, RR: 12 Reply 5, posted (8 years 8 months 1 week 6 days 19 hours ago) and read 11131 times:
I am quite sure about Paramaribo Pengel Airport in Surinam. Off course PBM is served by KL/PY 747's due to the high density of passengers on this route.
Warren747sp From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 1132 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (8 years 8 months 1 week 6 days 19 hours ago) and read 11098 times:
Cubsrule From United States of America, joined May 2004, 21240 posts, RR: 19 Reply 8, posted (8 years 8 months 1 week 6 days 19 hours ago) and read 11005 times:
How about SFB? It doesn't strike me as a very large airport in terms of passengers at all, but I believe they get 747 charters from Europe.
AMS From United States of America, joined Aug 2003, 1689 posts, RR: 12 Reply 9, posted (8 years 8 months 1 week 6 days 18 hours ago) and read 10973 times:
Isn´t neighbouring French Guyana a smaller airport that gets the B747?
I am not aware of current 747's in Cayenne, French Guyana. Air France is operating A343 at the moment to/from Paris.
Rampero From Puerto Rico, joined Mar 2004, 125 posts, RR: 0 Reply 10, posted (8 years 8 months 1 week 6 days 18 hours ago) and read 10899 times:
Small caribbean airport with 747 service :
Antigua (anu)
St. Marteen (sxm)
La Romana , Dominican Republic (lrm) Pullmatur and Crosair
Punta Cana , Dominican Republic (puj) Air France,Pullmatur,Crosair and Aereolineas Argentinas.
TWA902fly From United States of America, joined Dec 1999, 3048 posts, RR: 4 Reply 12, posted (8 years 8 months 1 week 6 days 17 hours ago) and read 10826 times:
PPT Papeete.... not too many flights there at all..
Air France 744
Air New Zealand 763
Air Caledonie A330
Air Tahiti Nui A340
Air Tahiti ATR42/72
Hawaiian 763
think thats about it, plus charters. And i dont know if Corsair still flies the OAK-PPT route?
TWA902
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KCMike From United States of America, joined Jul 2004, 537 posts, RR: 0 Reply 13, posted (8 years 8 months 1 week 6 days 17 hours ago) and read 10744 times:
Dothan Regional here in Alabama, Theres a maintenance center here and every once in a while a 747 pops in. I dont think weve had one in awhile though
Warren747sp From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 1132 posts, RR: 0 Reply 14, posted (8 years 8 months 1 week 6 days 16 hours ago) and read 10690 times:
@Swissgabe
Both AF and BA and maybe KLM use to fly B744 into Lilongwe.
I have not checked lately.
Isitsafenow From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 4984 posts, RR: 26 Reply 16, posted (8 years 8 months 1 week 6 days 16 hours ago) and read 10559 times:
My vote goes to Alpena, Michigan with a once-in-a-while 747 in for maintenance.
If two people agree on EVERYTHING, then one isn't necessary.
Planemannyc From United States of America, joined Aug 2003, 989 posts, RR: 9 Reply 17, posted (8 years 8 months 1 week 6 days 15 hours ago) and read 10564 times:
Chittagong in Bangladesh had 3 weekly Phuket Airlines B747 service, but then it became B757 and is not going back to B747 service. Routing is BKK-CGP-DXB, but now there are talks of BKK-CGP-JED as well.
Carpethead From Japan, joined Aug 2004, 2770 posts, RR: 4 Reply 18, posted (8 years 8 months 1 week 6 days 13 hours ago) and read 10368 times:
How does one classify smallest airport with 747 service: runway length, movements, or pax numbers.
Komatsu & Hakodate in Japan see regular domestic 747 service and while the runway at those airports are 2700m & 2500m respectively, they see less than 20 commercial movements a day. Despite this half the aircraft are larger than 767/A300s! Also Komatsu gets Cargolux 74F a few times a week.
On a side note, I flew on a 744D with 569 pax seat filled-up from CTS to ITM. Aircraft was NH JA8964 which had a 55 minute turnaround. Took less than 15 minutes to load. Pushed-back right on time. That's Japanese efficiency.
UA772IAD From Australia, joined Jul 2004, 1635 posts, RR: 3 Reply 19, posted (8 years 8 months 1 week 6 days 13 hours ago) and read 10278 times:
Up until about 4 years ago UA used to have a daily 744 nonstop into Kona, HI (KOA-the big island) from San Francisco. Since then they downgraded to a 777 and then in the past two years a 767-300 Domestic. I believe JAL still has seasonal 747 service into Kona.
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Kona is basically served by Aloha and Hawaiian. Both carriers have islands and mainland service. United has three flights daily. Two from SFO (763, 752) and one from LAX (752). Also, American aparently has flights to Kona but I've never seen an American plane there, and JAL has flights there too. So: thats Aloha Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines, Japan Airlines, American Airlines, United Airlines. 5 AIRLINES & the rest is GA traffic.
JC5280 From United States of America, joined Oct 2001, 530 posts, RR: 5 Reply 20, posted (8 years 8 months 1 week 6 days 12 hours ago) and read 10225 times:
The 777s still go into KOA. At least on the weekends from SFO. Also, when KOA gets the ORD flight, it will be a 777 as well.
Doesn't JAL still fly into KOA with a 747-400 or MD-11?
NW7E7 From United States of America, joined Jun 2004, 532 posts, RR: 5 Reply 21, posted (8 years 8 months 1 week 6 days 12 hours ago) and read 10176 times:
OGG doesn't get a 747 right? The biggest there is UA777.
Warren747sp From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 1132 posts, RR: 0 Reply 23, posted (8 years 8 months 1 week 6 days 10 hours ago) and read 9917 times:
@Carpethead
Can you confirm the seating on the 747SR is configured as 3-5-3 seating in economy?
W
Carpethead From Japan, joined Aug 2004, 2770 posts, RR: 4 Reply 24, posted (8 years 8 months 1 week 6 days 9 hours ago) and read 9802 times:
The 747SRs have never been configured 3-5-3. I am not exactly sure but the 747 isn't certified to fly with that configuration. The 744Ds are the normal 3-4-3 in main cabin with 3-3 coach on the upper deck.
25 FLYSSC: In the Summer, AJACCIO (AJA) on the Island of Corsica is served daily by AF with a B742....
26 AirAmericaC46: Excellent topic DAL7e7! I believe PR still uses 747s to General Santos City in the island of Mindanao. I need confirmation on this. How about VS 744 L
27 Apollo17: From my personal experience it has got to be NAN (Nadi, Fiji Islands). It's small and not busy at all but they have their own Air Pacific 747s and I b
28 N730AS: Up here in Alaska, the biggest passenger plane that FAI sees in the winter time is a 739, but we do see 747 freighters from Cargolux, and LH Cargo (I
29 BOEING787: MLE - Male International in the Maldives gets the occasional charter from Alitalia with 747-200 and with Singapore Airlines who have operated 744's an
31 Indio66: how about saipan or rotanga? do they still have 747 from Japan?
32 Cospn: Thanks Indio 66 JalWays and NW both serve Saipan with Daily 747-200's TO NRT Saipan has about 60,000 Residents
33 Indio66: cospn - Thanks and sorry for the typo. I intended to say "rota", but I think only saipan has the big jets. If I remember correctly, however, rota has
35 Cospn: That is TIQ Tinnian But Only SPN and GUM have Big Aircraft..Dont Understand do the mean City or Airport DVO and UIO are Huge Cities ..????
36 Trolley Dolley: The smallest airport- in terms of airport size, not passenger numbers- that has had 747 services, to my mind is Wellington, New Zealand. Qantas purcha
37 KEno: Just to add on Swissgabe's post above, Langkawi Island has a population of 55,000. The main town, Kuah, has only 10,000 inhabitants. Yet the island r
38 Airplane: I think it refers to airport. But yeah, UIO is not too small of a runway but it is a very demanding approach. The ILS makes first timers think they ar
39 ZKSUJ: I agree with TrolleyDolley, WLG is very small and the 747SP operated there for QF a while back. Nadi in Fiji is home to Air Pacific and see's 747s fro
40 Crugs1: flew into Raratonga on a NZ 742 from Auckland on my way to Honolulu a few yrs back. That was one small airport with one SHORT runway!!!
41 Chinaeastern: i think it should be in noumea international with AF744. PPT is much bigger than noumea as they get more flights from NZ and domestic air tahiti and a
42 AlitaliaMD11: Hey Santiago De Compostela is a very small airport in north spain and there used to be a IB 742 service from there to JFK. Now in the summers Iberia,
43 IBERIA747: AlitaliaMD11... It´s not XACEBO...it´s XACOBEO 2004
44 RICARDOAB: Faro comes to mind. It's runway can handle a 747 (it often handles TAP A340s) but it has got a very small apron, and the lack of airbridges can make t
45 Vfw614: Lilongwe no longer has British Airways flights. BA cut the flight to Lilongwe recently. AFAIK, the market is now served via Nairobi with franchisee Re
46 777ER: WLG has also had a UA B747 land there by accident. The B747 was a fully loaded flight. The flight was diverting from AKL to CHC due to AKL being close
47 BestWestern: Noumea international is no longer served directly by Air France... it's now a codeshare on Air Calin.. PPT is probably the smallest regular scheduled
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