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Delta CEO: Boeing 747s will be retired by 2017
If you want to book a flight on one of Delta Air Lines' Boeing 747s, the clock is ticking. The carrier plans to retire the last of the 13 747s in its fleet by 2017, CEO Richard Anderson said during the carrier's third-quarter earnings call Thursday. (www.usatoday.com) Mais...
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Thank goodness they are saving 6301, the very first 747-400. They are taking it to the Delta museum. This was the test aircraft and delivered to Northwest Airlines in 1989. The first of the original 10 747-400's ordered by NWA. I have spent most of my 34 years of airline flying on either the 747-100, -200 or 400. It will be a sad day when this aircraft is no longer in service with this airline.
That's good news :) . I give Delta a lot of credit for preserving aircraft. The 747 will look good next to the 767 and 757 at the museum!!!
I was going to F27 school @ KBFI for West Coast Airlines in 1968 when Boeing was testing the first 747. Our class was offered a tour. A cabin full of 'beer barrels' to shift c.g. and a 'firepole' from the upper deck down to the fwd cargo door. If a bailout was necessary the door would be blown off and the test crew would slide down...right into #3 I always thought. Many mergers and many years later I finished my flying career flying the -400 for NWA.
I remember sitting in the cold a few years ago, right after the merger, waiting to see the first Delta repainted 747 land at MSP after getting its' paint changed. Sad to see them going away!
