One of my fav. birds and one of the greatest birds, dissapearng. Recently United retired there DC 10s. Next Garuda Indonasia are planning to do the same. They have 13 DC 10s. In my opinion the DC 10 is still has much more in it. I know it had a terrible start, but i would like to see more of it. What are your opinions? Is it to soon for the DC 10 to retire?? In my opinion no.
regards
kabir
By: greekdude1 - 27th August 2001 at 17:58
RE: Dissapearing DC 10
Northwest’s order for the A330 has been lingering since the early to mid 90’s. It will be interesting to see when they will FINALLY take delivery of these aircraft. I’m sure they’ve already had delivery positions for these. Do they have to pay a penalty to the manufacturer if they continuously postpone delivery?
By: V1 - 27th August 2001 at 14:10
RE: Dissapearing DC 10
The Northwest DC10 fleet will be eventually replaced by the Airbus A330, the airline selecting the Airbus product over the Boeing 777 for it’s long haul fleet renewal. Some of the NW DC10 domestic services will be replaced by the Boeing 757-300, several of which are on order. The last NW DC10 is due to be retired in around five years time, so they will be around for a while longer yet.
By: greekdude1 - 27th August 2001 at 07:43
RE: Dissapearing DC 10
The DC10 is a wonderful aircraft, and a workhorse; yet another classic trijet example. Freighter examples will be around a lot longer than the 5 years that somebody here wished for. FedEx is buying them like mad(all of United’s and American’s last examples), and converting them all to MD10 standard, which means they’ll have a 2-crew MD11 style cockpit. The passenger examples are slowly starting to disappear. Northwest still has quite a few on example, series 30’s and 40’s, and doesn’t look like they’re going anywhere anytime soon. I flew on N’West DC10’s LAX-HNL, and luckily got to fly on a United Series 10 example, 2 years previous. Unfortunately, United got rid of their WorldWide Cargo series 30’s the same time they retired the last of their passenger DC10’s, as well. The Worldwise Cargo division itself was shutdown as a result. Maybe they felt it wasn’t viable to keep around 5 freighter examples, when the last of the passenger examples has left their fleet?
By: carl727 - 14th August 2001 at 21:53
RE: Dissapearing DC 10
We very occasionaly get DC-10s through my local airport(Liverpool). One a few months ago flew a charter to Cardiff and back for football supporters. We have also had a DC10-F from a cargo airline, I think the name was Cargo-Lion. They were impounded for a while due to non-payment of fees !
By: spcooper - 13th August 2001 at 18:04
RE: Dissapearing DC 10
Yeah, and Gemini Air Cargo seem to have a few DC-10F.
I hope they stay around for another 5 years at least.
Regards Scott
By: monster500 - 10th August 2001 at 01:44
RE: Dissapearing DC 10
yeah alot are being converted to cargo carriers for fedex and ups so they will be flying for a long time to come
By: Matilainen - 9th August 2001 at 17:45
RE: Dissapearing DC 10
I think (and hope) that DC 10 will have a very succesful times ahead as a cargo hauler. If they are kept in good condition we’ll see them FLYING many years to come.
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