AirCalSNA From United States of America, joined Mar 2010, 269 posts, RR: 0 Posted (8 months 2 weeks 22 hours ago) and read 2639 times:
I was reading an article by Joan Didion yesterday about the 1988 presidential election, and she mentioned an Alaska 767 landing at SAN while she was on the tarmac with one of the candidates? I think maybe she made a mistake, but does anyone know if Alaska ever flew the 767? Thanks.
cargolex From United States of America, joined Apr 2010, 1154 posts, RR: 9 Reply 1, posted (8 months 2 weeks 22 hours ago) and read 2606 times:
Nope.
She probably means the 727, which was the backbone of the fleet in 1988. Alaska has never operated a wide-body, though they optioned a 747-100 (later cancelled).
HAL From United States of America, joined Jan 2002, 2465 posts, RR: 53 Reply 2, posted (8 months 2 weeks 22 hours ago) and read 2587 times:
The biggest airplane that AS flew was the Convair 990. They've never flown a widebody, and it's been over 20 years since they've flown anything other than 737's or MD-80's.
HAL
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cargolex From United States of America, joined Apr 2010, 1154 posts, RR: 9 Reply 3, posted (8 months 2 weeks 22 hours ago) and read 2512 times:
Quoting HAL (Reply 2): The biggest airplane that AS flew was the Convair 990.
Actually, I think the 707-300 is bigger than the C990. They had three of them in the 1970s, plus an ex-Qantas 707-138B, which I think is about the same size or slightly smaller than the C990.
The 707s were short leases for charter and far east operations, I think. They didn't have them long and may not have had more than one at any given time.
Viscount724 From Switzerland, joined Oct 2006, 21460 posts, RR: 24 Reply 7, posted (8 months 2 weeks 19 hours ago) and read 1978 times:
Quoting BoeingGuy (Reply 6): Quoting cargolex (Reply 3):
plus an ex-Qantas 707-138B,
Ahhh, I never knew that. I thought Braniff and BWIA were the only carriers who subsequently flew the -138.
Quite a few carriers (I would guess at least 20, possibly more) operated ex-QF 707-138s for varying periods. Since QF kept the -138s for such a short period (some were disposed of after only 5 years service and the longest only spent 8 years with QF) many had quite a few subsequent operators.
For example, Canadian carrier Pacific Western acquired QF's very first 707-138 (the first commercial jet registered in Australia) and operated it for 11 years from 1967 to 1978, mainly on charter flights to Europe in the summer and to Hawaii and the Caribbean during the winter. After many years as a VIP aircraft, including more than 10 years in Saudi Arabia, it was returned to Australia and restored in original QF livery and is now on display at a QF museum in Longreach, QF's birthplace.
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