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NA From Germany, joined Dec 1999, 9600 posts, RR: 10
Posted (7 years 3 months 1 week 2 days 7 hours ago) and read 4756 times:

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Not many know that Qantas leased a single 747-100 in the late 80s, VH-EEI, a former American Airlines aircraft. It seems to have been quite a troublesome bird which spend much time in maintenance. 1988/89 it was sub-leased to Air Pacific, 1990 rr. EI-CAI and shortly afterwards went to Virgin Atlantic where it spend another 10 busy years.

There are no photos existing of this aircraft wearing QF livery though about 1 year of its lease it was not operated by Air Pacific. That leads me to ask if it was ever painted in Qantas colours?

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Gordonsmall From UK - Scotland, joined Jun 2001, 1995 posts, RR: 24
Reply 1, posted (7 years 3 months 1 week 2 days 6 hours ago) and read 4696 times:

In 1987/88 that aircraft was also G-HIHO of Highland Express, a short-lived airline that flew (IIRC) BHX-PIK-EWR for a short while.

G-HIHO was the first jumbo I ever flew on.

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OHLBU From Finland, joined Jan 2005, 226 posts, RR: 0
Reply 2, posted (7 years 3 months 1 week 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 4326 times:

I've always wondered why does Air Pacific operate 747s? Do they really have sufficient passenger loads to fill all those seats or do they just need the cargo capacity of a Jumbo?

Magyarorszag From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 3, posted (7 years 3 months 1 week 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 4246 times:

Quoting NA (Thread starter):
Not many know that Qantas leased a single 747-100 in the late 80s

Say again! QF has operated three different B747-100s.
Here are the details:

B747-130 EI-BED 19748 44 30/11/1987 14/12/1988 Leased from Aer Lingus - ex. D-ABYC.
B747-123 VH-EEI 20108 87 08/02/1988 31/03/1988 Ops for Air Pacific 01/04/1988-14/11/1989 - ex. G-HIHO / N9669.
B747-123 VH-EEI 20108 87 15/11/1989 20/03/1990 ex. G-HIHO / N9669.
B747-131 N93117 20322 113 01/11/1987 01/03/1988

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M.

ETA Unknown From Comoros, joined Jun 2001, 2009 posts, RR: 0
Reply 4, posted (7 years 3 months 1 week 1 day 21 hours ago) and read 4166 times:

QF never operated a 747-100 in their own livery. The Aer Lingus and Tower Air machines were wet-lease operations during a time of severe capacity shortage- a Martinair DC10 and 747-200 were also leased in (that 747 wore a hybrid livery). To the best of my knowledge, the ex AA 747 was only operated by Air Pacific, after the lease of 747-200 VH-EBK ended.

NA From Germany, joined Dec 1999, 9600 posts, RR: 10
Reply 5, posted (7 years 3 months 1 week 1 day 21 hours ago) and read 4159 times:

Thanks for the correction. I now remember seeing a picture of this TWA 747 in an odd hybrid TWA/Tower Air livery with QF titles. And that EI-BED was shortly leased, but without any QF titles as much as I know.

Do you know if VH-EEI was repainted after being returned from its sub-lease to Air Pacific or operated like seen in the picture above?

NZ747 From New Zealand, joined Dec 2004, 958 posts, RR: 4
Reply 6, posted (7 years 3 months 1 week 1 day 21 hours ago) and read 4120 times:

Quoting OHLBU (Reply 2):
I've always wondered why does Air Pacific operate 747s? Do they really have sufficient passenger loads to fill all those seats or do they just need the cargo capacity of a Jumbo?

Loads are good. Air Pacific does well with its two B744s on the Sydney and Los Angeles routes. Cargo is usually always full with the likes of seafood exports and that.

777ER From New Zealand, joined Dec 2003, 11308 posts, RR: 17
Reply 7, posted (7 years 3 months 1 week 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 3949 times:

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Yes Air Pacific needs B744s in its fleet. Out of the routes the B744s fly (SYD, AKL and LAX) the loads are very good.

N1120A From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 25852 posts, RR: 80
Reply 8, posted (7 years 3 months 1 week 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 3934 times:

They do a lot of consolidated contracts and offer good scheduled fares which are allowed by their high density configuration. Also, their location allows them to utilize the jumbos both to the US mainland and Down Under.

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Aussie747 From Australia, joined Aug 2003, 1161 posts, RR: 0
Reply 9, posted (7 years 3 months 1 week 1 day 16 hours ago) and read 3815 times:

Loads are so good that on it's SYD routes between NOV and FEB they offer supp services 3 to 4 x weekly with 738's as well.

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