Feeling nostalgic about 747s. Who’s have you flown?

af773atmsp · Mon Jan 18, 2021 4:04 am

Just one: A KL 74M, PH-BFI, named "City of Jakarta", from AMS to ORD on 30/9/2018. It was a tight connection at AMS since my E190 flight from OSL was severely delayed due to maintenance issues. While a lot of people on that flight missed their connections, luck was on my side. The $1,200 ticket was well worth it to fly on the queen at least once in my life before all the passenger versions are gone forever.

Here's my video of the takeoff and landing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qpuc9bl6t6w

spartanmjf · Mon Jan 18, 2021 4:34 am

Delta (-400) x1
KLM (-200) x1
Lufthansa (-200) x2
Pan Am (-100) x7 including two on N739PA (Clipper Maid of the Seas)
Swissair (-300) x1
TWA (-100)

AntonioMartin · Mon Mar 01, 2021 2:58 pm

Never...

Aaron747 · Mon Mar 01, 2021 4:06 pm

Oh my, missed this one somehow.

742:
NWx4
TGx1
UAx1

743:
CXx1

744:
CXx3
NWx1
DLx1
UAx9
TGx1
SQx1
KEx3
JLx1
NHx3

748:
KEx1

aeromoe · Thu Mar 04, 2021 3:40 am

24 flights: Flying Tigers: -100 (full pax); UA: -100, SP, -200, -400; KE: -8i; KL: -400 (ex-Combi, full pax), -400M, TW: -100, -200; QF: -400ER; PA: -100

VirginFlyer · Thu Mar 04, 2021 7:18 pm

LH - 747-8
MH - 747-400
NZ - 747-200, 747-400
QF - 747-200, 747-300, 747-400
SQ - 747-400
TG - 747-300, 747-400

V/F

agrflyer · Sat Mar 06, 2021 9:16 pm

LH: 747-400
UA: 747-400
SQ: 747-400
MH: 747-200, -400
TG: 747-300, -400

CarlosSi · Mon Mar 08, 2021 6:55 am

I'm a young flyer coming from underprivilege and under-aspirating to travel... I've flown on a couple of Lufthansa's 747-400s. Among the ones that remain, hope to fly their 748 and perhaps whatever 748s remain in the world several years down the road if airlines don't decide to just get rid of them.

An767 · Sun Mar 14, 2021 7:29 am

Qantas 200,300,400
British Airways 100,200,400
Cathay 400
Air New Zealand 400
Thai 400
Malaysian 400
Singapore 200,300,400
Ansett 300
hoping to get a ride on an 8 but chances are slim Lufthansa & Korean are the only 2 left don't think Korean use them on the Australian routes ?

AN767

ZK-NBT · Sun Mar 14, 2021 8:01 am

An767 wrote:
Qantas 200,300,400
British Airways 100,200,400
Cathay 400
Air New Zealand 400
Thai 400
Malaysian 400
Singapore 200,300,400
Ansett 300
hoping to get a ride on an 8 but chances are slim Lufthansa & Korean are the only 2 left don't think Korean use them on the Australian routes ?

AN767

Air China fly the 747-8I, Korean have used them to SYD for brief periods once or twice.

afterburner33 · Sun Mar 14, 2021 8:33 am

NZ
QF
BA
CX

All 400s. Would be nice to get a ride on the -8i one day, but that really relies on KE sending them to AKL again.

An767 · Sun Mar 14, 2021 10:19 am

ZK-NBT wrote:
An767 wrote:
Qantas 200,300,400
British Airways 100,200,400
Cathay 400
Air New Zealand 400
Thai 400
Malaysian 400
Singapore 200,300,400
Ansett 300
hoping to get a ride on an 8 but chances are slim Lufthansa & Korean are the only 2 left don't think Korean use them on the Australian routes ?

AN767

Air China fly the 747-8I, Korean have used them to SYD for brief periods once or twice.

Thanks ZK-NBT. Korean would be only option from Aus. China not on my list, been there done it.
An767

LukaJ · Sun Mar 14, 2021 11:07 pm

I particularly remember Lufthansa because when I was a little kid I thought the 747 was a Lufthansa plane, as in like the livery is the name of the aircraft. :rotfl:

CPHS · Sun Mar 28, 2021 9:05 am

CPHS wrote:
741 JL, AF
74L PA
742 KL, PK, CA, IB, AI, BA, GA
743 CX, SR, IB
744 BA, SA, TG, SQ, KL, VS, AF, MH
748 LH

Tartarus · Sun Mar 28, 2021 6:50 pm

NCA 747-200
NCA 747-400
QANTAS 747-400
BA 747-400
Thai 747-400
KLM 747-300
JAL Ways 747-200

B777LRF · Tue Mar 30, 2021 6:31 am

For mere mortals, it would probably be a toss-up between the upper-deck on a BA -400, seat 1A on a LH -400 or 1K on a SAA -300. But I'm a lucky SOB, so for me the best 747 ride ever was on a Kalitta -200F.

Delta777Jet · Wed Mar 31, 2021 9:22 pm

TWA -100
Lufthansa -200 / -400 / -8i
British Airways -400
Thai -400
Singapore -400
United -100 / -SP
KLM -400 (into SXM)
Air Canada -400C
Virgin Atlantic -400

N415XJ · Thu Apr 01, 2021 3:53 am

My first jet flight was on a KLM 747-200SUD, PH-BUM named "Anthony HG Fokker" when I was only a few months old. I know this because my parents just so happened to snap a picture of the plane at the gate with the name on the nose prominently displayed. Very lucky to have that picture.

My latest one was BA 747-400 G-CIVT, from LHR to IAD. Hopefully it won't be my last- I'm sure I'll get a chance to fly Lufthansa's 747s before they retire them.

CairnterriAIR · Mon Apr 05, 2021 10:52 pm

Not too many...

UA...ORD-BDL in the mid 80’s (747-100)
PA...NAS-JFK in the mid 80’s (747-100)
NW..DTW-NRT-HKG in 1989 (747-400)
Came home 10 days later on their 747-200 HKG-SEA

YYZSpotter1991 · Wed Apr 07, 2021 3:07 pm

747-200: LY (1998)
747-400: BA (2015)
747-400M: KL (2013)

mig17 · Wed Apr 07, 2021 6:06 pm

UTA : SIN<=>CDG B747-200 / B747-300 / B747-400
Air France : CDG<=>SDQ B747-200 ; CDG<=>SIN B747-400
Singapore Airlines : LHR<=>SIN B747-300
British Airways : LHR<=>SIN B747-200
Corsair : ORY<=>FDF B747-300

lesfalls · Wed Apr 07, 2021 11:52 pm

Only LH, JFK-FRA. A real experience back in 2014, how much the world has changed since then.

trex8 · Thu Apr 08, 2021 12:29 am

PA 741, SP
TW 741
UA 741,744
JL 741, 742
BA 741, 742, 744
CI 741, 742
NW 741, 744
LH 744
PR 742
CX 742
TG 744
Air Siam 741

YQBexYHZBGM · Thu Apr 08, 2021 12:56 am

IB Iberia (3 x)
SK SAS (2 x)
AR Aerolíneas Argentinas (2 x)

One of those IB flights was notable because it was a domestic flight, AGP-MAD, in 1984. Not the kind of flight you'd be likely to see on a large widebody aircraft these days, except perhaps in Japan.

TR763 · Thu Apr 08, 2021 10:17 pm

Only a few flights with the queen, unfortunately.

07/1991 - Varig - GIG-MIA
12/1991 - Aerolineas Argentinas - GRU-MIA
07/2000 - United - LAX-ORD (747-200 - N163UA)
12/2017 - Lufthansa - FRA-GRU (747-8 - D-ABYJ)

Bucksduck · Wed Apr 14, 2021 7:43 pm

I remember watching the very first Pan Am one take off from Heathrow on a grey January day in 1970, and it was many years before I actually flew on one. Since then I have flown the following:

BA London Heathrow - Los Angeles
BA Los Angeles - London Heathrow
BA London Heathrow - Washington Dulles
BA Philadelphia - London Heathrow
BA London Heathrow - New York JFK
BA New York JFK - London Heathrow
Virgin Atlantic London Heathrow - Washington Dulles
Virgin Atlantic Washington Dulles - London Heathrow
Air Canada London Heathrow - Toronto
South African Airways London Heathrow - Cape Town
South African Airways Johannesburg - London Heathrow

Gemuser · Sun May 02, 2021 12:05 pm

QF - 300 & 400
JL - 300
UA - 400
BA - 400
Gemuser

Mortyman · Sun May 02, 2021 8:47 pm

Pan Am 747-100
Pan Am 747-200
KLM 747-200 SUD ( stretched Upper deck )
KLM 747-400
KLM 747-400M
Thai airways 747-300
Lufthansa 747-400
Lufthansa 747-8i
Air New Zealand 747-400

seat1a · Mon May 03, 2021 3:19 pm

AA ORD-DTW - The one with the piano bar.
NW DTW-MSP - Late 1980s

Fast forward to 2007-2008
BA SEA-LHR, LHR-DEL, LHR-SEA (Biz Class upstairs on all legs)

TUGMASTER · Mon May 03, 2021 9:06 pm

Probably my favourite seats on the 747’s were either 64A or K on the BA birds...
Can’t think of a better one, except the JS.

eta unknown · Tue May 04, 2021 9:24 am

Business class upstairs in a 747-100/200 was like a private jet... economy was OK too, but not so... private.
I forgot to add AR 747-200 to my list... the memory of that flight was so awful I blanked it out!

Whywhyjay · Wed May 05, 2021 3:22 am

1984 CP Air "Empress of Canada" (best 747 livery ever)
1991 South African Airways
1993 Cathay Pacific
1995 Air Canada
2011 Air New Zealand "City of Dunedin" (probably my last 747 flight)

UAUA · Wed May 12, 2021 7:27 am

1) B 747-100: JL

2) B 747-200: JL, CX, AC

3) B 747-300: QF, JL, CX, TG

4) B 747SP: UA

5) B 747-400: JL, NH, TG, SQ, MH, KE, OZ, BA, QF, CA, UA, NW, AN, NZ, CI, AI, LH, AC, CP, BR

bbowma77 · Tue May 18, 2021 12:46 am

Delta: 747-400 Atlanta- Narita
Northwest 747-200 Detroit-Narita-Bangkok, 747-400-Detroit-Narita
Pan Am: 747-200 New York-London
TWA: 747-200 New York-Paris
Olympia: 747-200 Athens-New York
Lufthansa 747-200 Chicago-Frankfurt, 747-400 Frankfurt-Dubai, 747-8i Chicago-Frankfurt

LXM83 · Thu May 27, 2021 9:06 pm

B747-200: LH, NW
B747SP: RB
B747-300: SR, AN, JL
B747-400: LH, BA, QF, SQ, NW, AF, NH, KE, KU, EB

SuperGee · Fri May 28, 2021 4:35 pm

TWA
British Airways
Lufthansa
Swissair

vhtje · Sat May 29, 2021 12:36 pm

QF 747-238B (SYD > CHC; we boarded by stairs in SYD on a boiling summer's day), 747-338 (SYD to SIN, upstairs in Y. There were only 6 of us; the crew turned the trolley into a self-service bar!), 747-438 and 747-438ER
BA 747-436 (by a large margin, my most frequent - and, to date, my last 747 flight, on retro-liveried Landor G-BNLY)
SQ 747-412
CX 747-467
VS 747-4?? (don't know the code, it could have been a leased aircraft. It was a Gatters-based aircraft and it was terribly clapped out)

I have also flown on 747-4H6 ex-Malaysian, but they were with Qantas when I flew them. Does that count?

I do hope to fly on LH's 747-8i but their business class looks miserable. I did see a €1500 First return MUC to ORD this coming December, when LH had a sale during the hight of the pandemic. I wish I'd booked it now, that fare has long gone and it's €5,000-something now. Grrrrr. Opportunity missed.

LHRBFSTrident · Mon May 31, 2021 8:14 pm

747-100 BA
747-200 BA, TE, BR-BCal
747SP UA
747-300 CX
747-400 BA, VS, KL, LH, TG, OZ, JL, BR-EVA, QF, NZ, UA
747-8i LH

CPT-LHR-LAX 1/9/20 was my last long-haul...glad now I booked the BA 744 all the way instead of the CX 77W/A359 cheaper fare

FlyEndeavorAir · Tue Jun 01, 2021 3:38 am

I unfortunately haven't flown on one yet, was planning to last year before COVID hit, so that never happened. I have however been inside two 747's, N661US, a former Delta/Northwest 747-400 (prototype 744 along with being involved in Northwest flight 85) at the Delta Museum and N747NA, a former Pan Am/United 747SP that now operates for SOFIA/NASA.

convair880mfan · Sat Jul 24, 2021 5:13 am

UA
TWA
Unforgettable experiences that I treasure.

Ionosphere · Mon Aug 02, 2021 2:59 am

QF LAX-AKL May 2004 on the 747-400 that went off the runway in BKK in '99
QF SYD-LAX May 2004 747-400ER with the 777 style interior
DL MSP-NRT September 2011 747-400 upstairs in BusinessElite, loved the intimate atmosphere

LachieTheMaddog · Mon Aug 02, 2021 4:35 am

I don't have much to add, all but one of mine have been the -400/-400ER. They were truly a fantastic aircraft.

Qantas: SYD-NRT (still trying to find the flight number for this)
Qantas (or possibly JAL): NRT-BNE (no flight number again)
Lufthansa: SIN-FRA (LH779), 747-430
Lufthansa: FRA-KIX (LH740), 747-430
Japan Airlines: KIX-BNE (JL777), 747-346
Qantas: SYD-SFO-YVR (QF73), 747-48E VH-OEB
Qantas: BNE-SIN (QF51), 747-400 (this flight may have been on an A330)
Qantas: BNE-SIN (QF51), 747-438 VH-OJJ
Qantas: SIN-BNE (QF52), 747-400
Qantas: BNE-SIN (QF51), 747-438ER VH-OEE
Qantas: YVR-SYD (QF76), 747-438ER VH-OEG
Qantas: BNE-LAX (QF15), 747-438ER VH-OEF
Qantas: YVR-SYD (QF76), 747-438ER VH-OEI
Qantas: SYD-YVR (QF75), 747-438ER VH-OEJ
Qantas: LAX-BNE (QF16), 747-438 VH-OJU
Qantas: SYD-BNE (QF524), 747-438ER VH-OEI

KlimaBXsst · Mon Aug 02, 2021 5:40 am

ANA, Braniff, British Airways, United

fanofjets · Fri Aug 13, 2021 3:40 am

My very first 747 flight was aboard Pan Am's N743PA, Clipper Derby, in 1971. She still had that "new plane" smell. Also flew aboard KLM's early -200 series, along with Sabena, TWA, and Air-India. My last was aboard British Airways G-AWNA, BOAC's very first. I never flew the -400. In my long lifetime, the 747 holds a very special place in my heart.

pilatus · Wed Aug 18, 2021 11:12 am

LH: -400 (x7), -8 (x1)
UA: -100 (x3),-200 (x1), -400 (x1)
BA: -400 (x3)
AR: -200 (x2)
QF: -400 (x1)
CA: -400 (x1)
CI: -400 (x1)
IR: -100 (x1), -SP (x1)
KL: -400 (x1)
TG: -400 (x4)
KE: -400 (x3)

Fiver · Thu Aug 19, 2021 3:01 pm

I'm two away from the full set. I'll never get the SP and sadly can't see the -8 happening either. I drive past BOH daily and seeing the Qatar SP and 8i that were based there for a while was always great. They are now long gone unfortunately

British Airways (1990) - 200. LHR-SFO, SFO-LHR. I was nine and my only ever flight before this was on an MD83 so this seemed huge!
United - 100 (1991). JFK-LHR
Virgin Atlantic - 400 (1997) LHR-SFO, SFO-LHR
Cathay Pacific - 400 (1999) LHR-HKG, HKG-SYD, HKG-LHR
Qantas - 300 (1999). SYD-AKL
Malaysian Airlines- 400 (2008) LHR-KUL, KUL-LHR

The United 100 was a bonus. I was flying SFO-LHR via JFK. The first leg was on a DC10 which was cool. The second part was scheduled for a 767-200ER. That went tech so we had to wait 24 hours and then went home on the 747-100.

Can't believe it's been 13 years.......

futureatp · Mon Aug 23, 2021 3:58 pm

Haven't been on this site in a long time. So I thought I'd add my 747 rides:

Just three times.

1994 QF LAX-SYD and return. 744. Got to ride in business class on the way down in the upper deck and visit the flight deck in flight. Coach on way back.

1996 TWA STL-JFK. 741. Trip originated out of MCI and the return departed out of LGA so no wide body :-(

. Seating on the flight threw me as TWA used numbers not letters to designate seats on wide bodies. Also remember the white hybrid livery 747 TWA had at the time parked next to my flight. It was going to HNL. When we departed STL I was surprised how much runway we used. Then I later figured a reduced power setting had been used and also even later, the possibility of tankering fuel as the flight was going on to Rome and was lightly loaded for the segment I was on. Not sure about fuel prices in the 90s but I witnessed airlines do it out of PHX last decade as fuel was generally cheaper there.

flyingclrs727 · Tue Aug 24, 2021 11:49 pm

PA
BA
BN 747-123
SK

lijnden · Tue Aug 31, 2021 5:31 am

KLM
Air France
ANA
CAAC
Iran Air
Lufthansa
TWA
China Airlines
Delta
American Airlines
United Airlines

global2 · Fri Sep 03, 2021 11:13 pm

I thought I had posted on here but perhaps that was on a similar thread some time ago. So...

Pan Am LHR to JFK in 1972. And through the eyes of a six year old I will never, ever forget the awe and astonishment of the size of the cabin when we boarded. Mom found a row in the middle all to herself where she was able to lie down and sleep.

Japan Airlines JFK to TYO (old Haneda) 1977 via Anchorage.
United :EWR to SFO 1980, where my mother and I debated whose hot lunch (in coach) was better
Northwest Orient 1983 JFK to NRT

Then in my grown up/working life:
British Airways
Cathay Pacific: where I fell in love with the upper deck
Singapore
ANA
Air France (once I was automatically upgraded to business at the gate which was wonderful because we then had a ground delay and the champagne just flowed and flowed)
Air India (Upper deck where our carry-ons wouldn't fit in the overhead bins and they told us to just leave them on the floor in an empty aisle--WTF??)
JAL again which was excellent
Northwest again which was alright
Korean Air, in the front row upstairs, which sadly may be my last ever 747 flight. Maybe someday I'll get to fly on LH's 748.

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