346
Was flying from Bogota to Frankfurt 2 years ago, and flying with Copa Embraer 190 plus Lufthansa 343 was much cheaper than 346 direct. but I wanted to try Copa. and thought that there would be another chance of boarding a 346. how wrong I was...

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also 762
flew 763 seven times (Air New Zealand /3/, LAN /3/, Avianca /1/), but never got a chance of a 762.
the closest I was is probably when I was flying CCS-BOG-UIO in 2009 with Avianca. At that time, you could get probably nine different models on Avianca from CCS. So I was secretly hoping of a 762. But when 763 came, I was very glad to escape Venezuela as a tourist...

I've flown on a number of different types, but the airliners I most wish I could've flown on (and never got the chance as of yet, or ever) include:

- Airbus A340
- Boeing 707
- Airbus A380
-Boeing 727
-Concorde
-Lockheed L1011 Tristar
-Boeing 747-8
-Vickers VC10

Concorde.

MEA-707 wrote:

Some people here are dramaqueens... they can easily book an A380, 767 or A340-600 without even leaving their continent.

Maybe from your persective but not everybody (even the alleged "dramaqueens" on here) has the disposable income to just book a flight to tick a box.

Constellation
A-380

Constellation
A-380
B-36 but I guess it isn't an airliner.

Tristar, MD 11 and 727, think there's a theme here lol

Others have mentioned the Boeing Stratocruiser and Lockheed Constellation, and I, too, wish I had flown them because of their intriguing designs. But being old enough to have flown a lot of piston engine airliners, I have to admit that a long flight on them is very fatiguing. I can tell you that 7 hours on a DC-6B was no treat. I read of TWA’s L-1649 Constellation flights from SFO to London taking 22 hours and shudder, especially at the thought of the noise and vibration. I heard a lot of Stratocruiser engines from the ground and they were very loud and low pitched. But that lower level lounge sure was nifty.
One prop airliner that I am glad I missed was the Canadair Northstar, a version of the DC 4 with Rolls-Royce Merlin engines instead of radials, where the cabin noise was above 90 decibels, enough to impair hearing. I wonder how many Trans Canada employees suffered hearing loss working on them, not to mention RCAF personnel who also worked on them?

Probably any plane type I have not experienced but my top few would be:
Boeing 707
Caravelle
Comet
Concorde
DC3
Illyushin IL62
Illyushin IL 86
Trident
VC10

L1011
MD-11
747SP
747-300
767-300 of BA with the Rolls-Royce RB-211
CV880
CV990
DC8
Lockheed Electra L188
Douglas DC6 and DC7
727-100 Series
VC10
IL-62
707
720
Dassault Mercure
Caravelle

SFOThinker wrote:

One prop airliner that I am glad I missed was the Canadair Northstar, a version of the DC 4 with Rolls-Royce Merlin engines instead of radials, where the cabin noise was above 90 decibels, enough to impair hearing. I wonder how many Trans Canada employees suffered hearing loss working on them, not to mention RCAF personnel who also worked on them?

One thing in its favor: it was certainly a good looking airplane.

I'll take this opportunity to say I'd like to have flown in a A340 of any sort, but especially a 500 or 600.

MORE 727s. There is no better answer than that coming out of my mouth. I have flown on those but not enough. I wish I had flown on more of those, a lot more than I actually did. That's why I insist on the word "more". Imagine this: you are so hungry that you feel you could eat two pounds of meat yourself in one single meal, a huge thick T-Bone steak for yourself, and all you are allowed to get is one ounce of meat, and a few veggies, no bread, that's it. I felt the same when back in the late 80s and 90s, I was deprived of flying on 727s. I always got to fly on MD-80s, A300s a couple of times, Fokker 100s, 737s and 757s, but no 727s. Yes 727s also, but much fewer than I would have liked. I was starved to death for 727s, the same way a poor child in Ethiopia is starving to death. Have I flown on 727s? NOT ENOUGH. Back in 2002, I flew MIA-TPA-MIA in one evening just to be on the final flight of the 727 at American. This was my last flight on a 727, ever. I could tell a lot more stories but I won't because if I do my post will be too long.
You must be wondering then why my username is American 767, it's because I have flown on a lot of those with American TATL during the 90s and 2000s.

American 767 wrote:

MORE 727s. There is no better answer than that coming out of my mouth.

I've also flown plenty of 727s over the years and definitely miss the type. The one airliner I regret not flying on would have been my last 727 ever, DL N8890Z, in 2002. I was actually sitting on the plane in CVG, in first class no less. However, storms in DFW were causing massive delays and I was getting increasing anxious about my connection to DEN. As the minutes ticked by and turned into hours I finally bailed and headed back up into the terminal to see if the gate agent could rebook me on the nonstop to DEN. They were able to do so and I ended up in the back of a packed MD-88, at the time glad to be getting out and wondering what would happen to my checked bag.

However, I now wish I'd stuck it out on N8890Z, even if it had meant overnighting in DFW, just to have had that final 727 flight. Per the BTS data the original connection was completely blown but there was an evening flight from DFW to DEN that maybe I would have had a chance to sneak on. My luggage did as it showed up at the house early the next morning.

niagara484

Any 50's-60's jet, as well as an A340, A380, or any 747 variant.

A340-500
A340-600
B747-400 ( I hope to fly LH’s if they are back in service).
B757-200

Concorde.....and any of the Pan Am flying boats

Concorde. ..I wouldn't mind trying that one day (£99 Bay of Biscay flights ).. lesson ...don't put things off! One day they cease to happen and it's too late.

L1011, A310, DC 10, Tu154, il62

And DC8. Was booked on a UA DC8 PDX-ORD to connect with an international flight. Bit the DC8 was late so we were transfered to AA instead. Flew a very early AA 727-23 but lost out on the DC8

It kills me that I never got to experience the L-1011 or MD-11. I was not even drinking age when DL and AA retired them, respectively.

To make matters worse, there was virtually no domestic service from my hometown airport of ORD…
Thank goodness for UA’s large fleet of DC-10s.

Philippine747 wrote:

MD-80! Was looking at Far Eastern Air Transport for a possible day trip to Penghu, but a few days before I flew to Taipei, the airline folded. Thankfully never booked tickets but still miffed about it.

What about Airfast Indonesia? Seems like this option would still be available to you.

DeltaMD95 wrote:

Philippine747 wrote:

MD-80! Was looking at Far Eastern Air Transport for a possible day trip to Penghu, but a few days before I flew to Taipei, the airline folded. Thankfully never booked tickets but still miffed about it.

What about Airfast Indonesia? Seems like this option would still be available to you.

Honestly Airfast seems like a good option, they seem like a reliable operator! The caveat though is that they are a charter airline and legally can't sell tickets directly; wishing for an enthusiasts' charter one of these day!

Concorde
747-300 (I've flown on all the others, including the SP)
Lockheed Super Constellation
707
DC8
767-400 (I've flown on all the others)

United's 767-200
And I'm talking about the original JT9-D powered jet's. Not the ones -200ER's they inherited from Continental.

And American's 757/767.

Yup. I've lived in the USA my whole life, and have never been on a 757 or a 767.

A340-500, for sure. Left that one out. Tough to get now..

acavpics wrote:

United's 767-200
And I'm talking about the original JT9-D powered jet's. Not the ones -200ER's they inherited from Continental.

And American's 757/767.

Yup. I've lived in the USA my whole life, and have never been on a 757 or a 767.

Definitely flew on a bunch of United 762s. I actually never flew on one of the ex-CO ERs. Flew on the AA 762ERs that were doing the transcons before the A321s - super comfortable even in coach. Also flew on the 762s from both prior to the era where they were kept specifically on the LAX/SFO-JFK transcons.

And about eleventy billion 757s from both.

I'm only going to list aircraft that are almost certainly impossible to catch a ride on now...I might get that 747 flight logged yet!

B707
B727
Concorde
L1011
Tu-154

The one aircraft I'm glad to have flown on is the DC-10. The balance of engine #2 combined with the design of the airframe produced the smoothest ride of any wide body I've flown (wh. includes the 747-200, 747-400 & 777). The 777 was in row one, 747-400 was 62K upper deck. The DC-10 was the rear secton.

Boeing 720. As a budding teenaged avgeek in the late 70s I missed out on Western Airlines. I did have a three-segment ticket on WA along the US West Coast in December 1978 that involved a 720 segment but had to cancel. Once stationed in England from 1985 I could've tried to sort our a Conair flight from Scandinavia to the Med but didn't.

Convair 990. I lived in Denver until joining the USAF in 1982 and could've joined Denver Ports of Call but where does a lowly teenager get the airfare to then fly a Convair 990 on a holiday flight?

747-400
L-1011
Concorde

-Concorde
-Tu-144
-Tu-134
-Tu-154
-Tu-204
-Il-96
-A380 (maybe I will)
L1011
A-340

Concorde and A380. Been through the Concorde here at Museum of Flight in Seattle a few times, but guessing a walk through would not do justice to actually flying. Friends have flown the Emirates A380 in F and J (jealous!) and always wanted to experience taking a shower in-flight.

I got a chance to fly a 717 (DL, SAN-SEA) several years ago (in F class no less!) and really enjoyed the rocket-like take off from a standstill on the runway.

Honorable mention I loved the L1011 (couple times on Delta out of DTW - in fact favorite flight was TPA-ATL-DAY-DTW on DL 1146).

I haven't yet had the chance to fly on the Queen of the Skies.

Aaron747 wrote:

Concorde and MD-11. Was fortunate to catch older types before they were retired in late 1990s/early 2000s.

I flew on Delta's MD-11 a few times, the first time in J ATL-PDX and then coach ATL-LAX subsequent times. It was great but I really wanted to fly American's. Their widebodies were still called Luxury Liners at the time and they totally lived up to their name, wide F and J seats with leather and lambswool and definitely not slim line.

I'm surprised nobody mentioned the very exotic niche trijet Yak-40.

I always considered the Concorde to be way too expensive although I did occasionally buy F and C tickets. So my wish list would look like this:

Tu-114
Bristol Brittania
Lockheed Constellation
Lockheed Electra
DC-7

Tu-104
Tu-124
DC-8
Convair 880/990
Caravelle

American 767 wrote:

MORE 727s. There is no better answer than that coming out of my mouth. I have flown on those but not enough. I wish I had flown on more of those, a lot more than I actually did. That's why I insist on the word "more". Imagine this: you are so hungry that you feel you could eat two pounds of meat yourself in one single meal, a huge thick T-Bone steak for yourself, and all you are allowed to get is one ounce of meat, and a few veggies, no bread, that's it. I felt the same when back in the late 80s and 90s, I was deprived of flying on 727s. I always got to fly on MD-80s, A300s a couple of times, Fokker 100s, 737s and 757s, but no 727s. Yes 727s also, but much fewer than I would have liked. I was starved to death for 727s, the same way a poor child in Ethiopia is starving to death. Have I flown on 727s? NOT ENOUGH. Back in 2002, I flew MIA-TPA-MIA in one evening just to be on the final flight of the 727 at American. This was my last flight on a 727, ever. I could tell a lot more stories but I won't because if I do my post will be too long.
You must be wondering then why my username is American 767, it's because I have flown on a lot of those with American TATL during the 90s and 2000s.

Did you get to fly the 727-100 too? I flew several on Eastern, one on Piedmont and several on American. Do you know when AA retired them and what the last flight was? I believe they retired them in the early 90s but not sure exactly when. My last flight on one was either 12/30 or 12/31/88. I was accumulating points since if you flew in January or February of 1988, you earned triple mileage for the whole year. Almost all US airlines had this same promotion. I bought a roundtrip ticket from CLT-GSO and connected in RDU. The fare was $29 one-way and the minimum miles earned per segment was still 1000 or 750 (before the triple mileage promotion) It was a 727-200 on the flights between CLT and RDU and a 727-100 between RDU and GSO. I sat in F on the RDU-GSO-RDU 727-100 flights and was the only passenger in F on both flights. I was a teenager and the FAs didn't care, they actually sat down and talked to me and were impressed with my knowledge of aviation. American had 10 F seats on the 727-100 and 12 on the 727-200. The equipment codes which were universal back then were 727 for the 100 and 72S for the 200 which was also known as the 727 Stretch.

Concorde, of course. I seriously considered doing one of the farewell flights that BA were running, but in the end couldn't justify the expense.

Everything else is a distant second. I was scheduled to fly one of AA's last A310 flights but it got swapped for a 757. I never had a realistic opportunity to fly some of the other interesting types like a DC-8 or VC10.