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In 1991, America West had plans for purchasing 4 Boeing 747-400 aircraft to replace the aging 747-200s in Honolulu service, but an order of 10 further Boeing 757-200s was also mentioned. [17] Furthermore, it was in the plans to purchase 15 Airbus A318s in the late 1990s aside with their new orders of A320s at the time but this never came to ...
The Boeing 747-400 is a large, long-range wide-body airliner produced by Boeing Commercial Airplanes, an advanced variant of the initial Boeing 747.The "Advanced Series 300" was announced at the September 1984 Farnborough Airshow, targeting a 10% cost reduction with more efficient engines and 1,000 nautical miles [nmi] (1,900 km; 1,200 mi) of additional range.
In May 2010 Corsairfly announced its "Takeoff 2012" modernisation plan, including a reduction of workforce by 25%, the replacement of three Boeing 747-400 aircraft by two Airbus A330-300 aircraft from TUI Group, the refurbishment of all aircraft cabins, leaving the charter flights market, and the termination of routes to Kenya, the Dominican ...
On June 28, 1998, United Airlines Flight 863, a Boeing 747-400 flying United's regularly scheduled transpacific service from San Francisco International Airport to Sydney Airport was forced to shut down one of its right-wing engines and nearly collided with San Bruno Mountain while recovering from the engine failure.
Boeing 747-200B: 6 1979 1997 Boeing 747-400: Boeing 747-200F: 1 1996 1999 Boeing 777F: Boeing 747-300: 2 1987 2007 Boeing 747-400: Boeing 747-400: 16 1990 2020 Airbus A350-900 Boeing 777-300ER: Retirement due to COVID-19 pandemic. 2 2011 Converted into freighters and transferred to Thai Cargo. Boeing 747-400BCF: 2 2012 2015 None Converted from ...
Oman Royal Flight operates two Boeing 747s. The older 747-400 was delivered in 2001, while a newer 747-8 was delivered in 2012. The Sultan also owns a business-jet version of Airbus' A320 and A319 ...
Boeing 747-200M: 7 1975 1986 Boeing 747-200B/SUD: 3 1985 2003 Boeing 747-200/SUD/SF: 2 1998 2003 Converted from two Boeing 747-200M/SUD aircraft. Boeing 747-200M/SUD: 7 1985 2003 PH-BUK preserved at Lelystad Aerodrome in 2004. Boeing 747-300M: 3 1983 2003 Largest operator of its type along with Swissair and Singapore Airlines. Boeing 747-400: 5 ...
Every day, Boeing 747, Lockheed L-1011, and Boeing 767 aircraft departed to more than 30 cities in Europe, fed by a small but effective domestic operation focused on moving U.S. passengers to New York or other gateway cities for wide-body service across the Atlantic, while a similar inter-European operation shuttled non-U.S. passengers to TWA's ...