Last SQ 747 flight(s) soon - anyone on them?

[markis10]

Or crack in the loo after landing if the destination was SYD

 

[Mattg]

I don't know if I would want to go on such a flight. Knowing it was the last SQ B744 flight to grace the skies would leave me with incredible sadness on leaving the aircraft at the end.
I've done such a flight once before, and I didn't really want to get off the plane at the end.

Out of curiosity, which aircraft was that, Harvyk?

 

[Drav]

Is that a signal to keep older hardy aircraft for sentiment / romance or one to say "it's time to move on, but we won't forget you"?

Really neither.

I think the 747 is a great aircraft, being replaced by good aircraft. Nothing wrong with an A380, but i dont know if you could call it great.

In any case, hopefully the 747-8 will pick up orders. IIRC Korean Air placed an order for a few. If it operates smoothly without too many delays then hopefully a few more carriers will sign on.

Even more so, hopefully the VC-25 replacement is a 747-8. In an age of austerity though, i can see why they'd opt for a 787 :s.

 

[Alanslegal]

If it ain't Boeing, I ain't going!

I hear this quite a few times and it's not going to stop me from flying a Scarebus

 

[harvyk]

Out of curiosity, which aircraft was that, Harvyk?

I did QF25, MEL-AKL as the very last B747 flight (the next day it was becoming a B737 flight). As most of my int travel back then was to NZ it felt like I was leaving the B747 for the last time, as I honestly didn't know when I would be on one again.

 

[Mattg]

I did QF25, MEL-AKL as the very last B747 flight (the next day it was becoming a B737 flight). As most of my int travel back then was to NZ it felt like I was leaving the B747 for the last time, as I honestly didn't know when I would be on one again.

Ah, right. Yeah that would've been a bit sad! I'm quite disappointed too actually about them replacing all the NZ flights with 737s. Like you most of my international travel is to NZ and while I can get the QF114 home, the 141 is too early to connect from CBR so its a 737 there now.

 

[ChrisFlyer]

Redemption seats in all classes are still available as of now. Very tempted to just book jump on board but this will be two weeks after I get back from freezing Europe .... decisions decisions!

My first ever flight, as an adult, was on a SQ 744 .... so this would definitely a good way to say see you SQ 744.

I'm tempted as well - though this will be the day after I arrive back from the US... thinking about doing MEL-SIN-KUL on the 24th, and then departing back to Oz via SYD on either the 25th or 26th to experience SQ's A380... decisions decisions haha!

 

[Alanslegal]

I'm tempted as well - though this will be the day after I arrive back from the US... thinking about doing MEL-SIN-KUL on the 24th, and then departing back to Oz via SYD on either the 25th or 26th to experience SQ's A380... decisions decisions haha!

I still see F awards available. Am tossing and turning about booking MEL-SIN-MNL in F, 59K points all up. Get into SIN in time for dinner where I can have chilli crab with my sister & her family before flying out the next morning SIN-MNL in F and hopefully a second visit to The Private Room .

 

[Berlin]

With the risk of almost everyone on here now hating me for this comment: I think SQ is doing exactly what other airlines should have done with those old 747s a long time ago: Get rid of them!

It was one of the first planes that I've been on as a teenager and I hated them from the start and getting older over the years haven't made them any better in my eyes and my partner (who usually doesn't give a ... about aircraft types and the likes) thinks the same, avoid the 747s at all cost, no matter which class. I personally find them for the most uncomfortable and extremely old-fashioned, a nice new A380 is light years ahead in my eyes, even if it has some cracks in the wings I quite regularly happily travel via one of my worst-hated airports in the world (LAX, that is) rather than going through Dallas which I quite like, only to avoid those tatty 747s.

Plus, and that is a matter of taste of course, no airplane has ever been as ugly as a 747 with that ridiculous half-attempted bump of an upper deck which looks like an over-ripe pimple in my eyes. Back when I was in my teenage years already I thought "Someone has to make this right and build a proper double deck plane" and I am grateful that Airbus has finally come to the rescue.

Just my opinion, please don't slaughter me now!

 

[The Rok]

With the risk of almost everyone on here now hating me for this comment: I think SQ is doing exactly what other airlines should have done with those old 747s a long time ago: Get rid of them!

It was one of the first planes that I've been on as a teenager and I hated them from the start and getting older over the years haven't made them any better in my eyes and my partner (who usually doesn't give a ... about aircraft types and the likes) thinks the same, avoid the 747s at all cost, no matter which class. I personally find them for the most uncomfortable and extremely old-fashioned, a nice new A380 is light years ahead in my eyes, even if it has some cracks in the wings I quite regularly happily travel via one of my worst-hated airports in the world (LAX, that is) rather than going through Dallas which I quite like, only to avoid those tatty 747s.

Plus, and that is a matter of taste of course, no airplane has ever been as ugly as a 747 with that ridiculous half-attempted bump of an upper deck which looks like an over-ripe pimple in my eyes. Back when I was in my teenage years already I thought "Someone has to make this right and build a proper double deck plane" and I am grateful that Airbus has finally come to the rescue.

Just my opinion, please don't slaughter me now!

I think the A380 looks hideous, but each to their own.

 

[nlagalle]

I think the A380 looks hideous, but each to their own.

I'm with you, I think the A380 looks fat. Nothing graceful about it at all. The 747 on the other hand has a nice sleek appearance to it.

Although the a380 is very nice inside and quiet, the 747 has better looks.

But then beauty is in the eye of the beholder!!

 

[Nigelinoz]

I'm with you, I think the A380 looks fat. Nothing graceful about it at all. The 747 on the other hand has a nice sleek appearance to it.

Although the a380 is very nice inside and quiet, the 747 has better looks.

But then beauty is in the eye of the beholder!!

I agree,I have actually heard the A380 referred to as 'The Dugong"
Cheers
N'oz

 

[The Rok]

Beauty is only skin deep, ugliness goes right through to the bone!

 

[ChrisFlyer]

I still see F awards available. Am tossing and turning about booking MEL-SIN-MNL in F, 59K points all up. Get into SIN in time for dinner where I can have chilli crab with my sister & her family before flying out the next morning SIN-MNL in F and hopefully a second visit to The Private Room .

Oh nice! I'm not a KF member (VA gold instead), so my booking would have to done normally if I decided to go

 

[harvyk]

With the risk of almost everyone on here now hating me for this comment: I think SQ is doing exactly what other airlines should have done with those old 747s a long time ago: Get rid of them!

You right, you do run that risk...

Just my opinion, please don't slaughter me now!

I would slaughter you now, but that'll take effort, so for the time been your safe...

Each to their own, I'm sure there are people out there who love the B757, and yet I take the same view towards that aircraft...
Just out of interest, how do you feel about the B748???

 

[harvyk]

I think the A380 looks hideous, but each to their own.

I agree, although if you look at it from certain angles it doesn't look too bad...
From the front however...

 

[Berlin]

You right, you do run that risk...

:shock::shock::shock:

Just out of interest, how do you feel about the B748???

Still only has a hump on top of the plane rather than a full second deck which just doesn't cut it in my eyes

I actually have lots of discussions with my friends over in France and Germany and they are all really angry at bloody LH for all airlines to buy that thing. Not that I would really care down here but I do admit that I have a little bit of a pro-Airbus bias left over

Now if Boeing built a proper dual deck plane that competes with the A380, then I would happily revisit the above as I do agree, the A380 looks a bit chubby. A stretched version of it would look quite pretty though I think

 

[markis10]

Now if Boeing built a proper dual deck plane that competes with the A380, then I would happily revisit the above as I do agree, the A380 looks a bit chubby. A stretched version of it would look quite pretty though I think

No chance of that happening, Boeing looked at it years ago and predicted it would be the commercial failure that the A380 is shaping up to be.

 

[Berlin]

No chance of that happening, Boeing looked at it years ago and predicted it would be the commercial failure that the A380 is shaping up to be.

We will see about that one. Would be nice if that "commercial success" of Boeing as the Dreamliner is, would be finally delivered to airlines outside of Japan. Just waiting for all the cracks on that one as well.

 

[The Rok]

We will see about that one. Would be nice if that "commercial success" of Boeing as the Dreamliner is, would be finally delivered to airlines outside of Japan. Just waiting for all the cracks on that one as well.

Quite an optimistic chap, aren't you?