United had made modifications to the cabin interior of the CP aircraft and added an additional fuel tank in the aft cargo compartementin order to enable a Seattle-HongKong nonstop service. These modifications were extended to two other CP Air aircraft foir a total of five of what was known as the DC-10-30ER model types, aircraft with a heavier gross take-off weight, slightly more engine thrust and longer range with additional fuel capacity.
Lijnden From Netherlands, joined Apr 2003, 496 posts, RR: 1 Reply 2, posted (2 years 8 months 3 days 3 hours ago) and read 5942 times:
DC-10:
The longest flight I have taken on a dc-10 was AMS > LAX (11:20) KLM (ph-dtd)
other flight on DC-10's:
HNL > ORD on UA
LAX > IAD on UA
SFO > Lihue on UA
AMS > IAD on NWA
IAD > AMS on NWA
LUX > KEF on Icelandair (n1035f)
KEF > JFK on Icelandair (n1035f)
LPA > AMS on Martinair (ph-mbt)
LPA > MAD on iberia (ec-cbo)
AMS > BWI on KLM (ph-dtl)
BWI > AMS on KLM (yv138c)
PTY > CUR on KLM (ph-dtb)
AMS > CDG > LIS > Recife > Manaus > RIO on Varig (pp-vmy)
RIO > LIS > CDG > AMS on Varig (pp-vmx)
CUR > JFK on American (n116aa)
Yes, and each time I've seen the aircraft at the airport, it was a DC-10-30, not -30ER. The flight operated once a week (monday) evening. Later the CGK leg was done by SQ.
Parisien From France, joined exactly 8 years ago today! , 813 posts, RR: 1 Reply 12, posted (2 years 8 months 3 days 1 hour ago) and read 5555 times:
if non stop route, Garuda Indonesia used to have a DC 10 flight from LAX to HNL continuing on to Biak in eastern Indonesia and on to Jakarta (CGK)...later on changed to MD11 cutting the stop in Biak.
ZRH-GVA-LAX started in Autumn 1989 and was operated by a DC-10-30ER probably up to the 1991/92 winter schedule, then by MD-11.
ZRH-GVA-SIN-CGK (Mon): don't know the start date, but was first flown only to SIN with code-share partner doing the last leg to CGK. SR formed its alliance with SQ & DL in 1989 if I remember well, so this should be the year that SR stopped to operate up to CGK. Then the SIN flight was operated out of ZRH from 1991.
ZRH-GVA-GIG-GRU-EZE (Tue; Thu; Sun) since at least (but probably before) the beginning of the 1980s. At first, the flight had to stop at DKR, both way, then came the -30ER which allowed a non-stop flight. Don't remember the exact date of change, but the MD-11 certainly took over the route in 1991/92, before flying it out of ZRH.
And the ZRH-GVA-JNB (Tue; Fri; Sun) route was flown probably up to 1991/92 winter schedule too. Then the MD-11 took over for a while, and later the route was flown out out of ZRH.
Interestingly, only the South America flight flew back through GVA. All others were going directly to ZRH on the return flght.
If anybody here have more precise details about all these facts, do not hesitate to correct me, I was too young to know all the details then.
Ravel From Finland, joined Feb 2006, 137 posts, RR: 0 Reply 14, posted (2 years 8 months 3 days 1 hour ago) and read 5499 times:
At some point the longest DC-10 flight was from Helsinki to Tokyo with Finnair's DC-10-30ER. Since Finnair didn't get a permission to fly over Soviet Union, the flight had to fly via North Pole so it was quite long...
Jupiter2 From Australia, joined Jan 2001, 677 posts, RR: 0 Reply 18, posted (2 years 8 months 2 days 23 hours ago) and read 5254 times:
AOM used to fly PAR/CMB/SYD/NOU, sectors broke up as follows
PAR/CMB 5281
CMB/SYD 5444
SYD/NOU 1230
TOTAL 11956 NM
If memory serves correct UTA used to fly a DC 10 that routed CDG/BAH/SIN/CGK/SYD/AKL/PPT/LAX, the aircraft basically flew under the one flight number, just an (A) added to the flight number from SYD.
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