As you know this type is my favorite. However as you know it was not a big commercial success.
Fortunately the MD11 has a second chance as a freighter. Since Boeing discontinued the production , many airlines such as FedEx are looking for second hand MD11’s.
Do you know how many passenger MD11 have been transformed into freighter in the world?
By: wysiwyg - 1st October 2002 at 17:33
RE: MD11
Strangely enough I have spent today flying with the former Senior Training Captain from the BCal DC10 fleet and asked him about this. This is his response –
After the Falklands War there was a lot of difficulty gaining access around South America. BCal were the dominant UK operator in that region but the government wanted to be able to improve links with the region (due to the political situation) so thought it would be better to reallocate route licenses and send BA,the flag carrier(!) instead. So BCal started to operate more to the Middle East and BA to South America. This wasn’t the move that BCal wanted but they were forced by the government. When oil prices started to rise BCal started to struggle and looked at selling a 40% stake to SAS. Lord King managed to block this move which left BCal desperate, until BA (having weakened them to breaking point) bought them themselves and absorbed it into BA. At this time BA had British Airtours as its charter arm but they wanted to disassociate themselves from charter and were concerned about a new charter operation on the horizon named Airtours (now MyTravel) so they got rid of their charter operation. A while later they started up Caledonian Airways with their remaining charter rights which they quickly sold on to Inspirations. The rest we all know…
By: A330Crazy - 30th September 2002 at 22:24
RE: MD11
[updated:LAST EDITED ON 30-09-02 AT 10:27Â PM (GMT)]Sorry to go off topic too. Wysiwyg, if you read the book “British Airways, its History, Aircraft and liveries” , you’ll see that BCAL was taken over by BA/British Airtours and turned into Caledonian, which was then taken over by some one else and then sold off as JMC.
But anyhow I have now changed my signature. 🙂 Thanks for noticing though. 🙂
By: wysiwyg - 30th September 2002 at 17:20
RE: MD11
A330 crazy – I’m a little off topic but I can’t help posting in response to the graphics attached under your posts. British Caledonian and Caledonian Airways are nothing to do with one another, they just happen to both use the name Caledonian. British Caledonian was demolished by BA.
By: KabirT - 30th September 2002 at 07:30
RE: MD11
hmm according to what i know it went to FedEx?
By: A330Crazy - 29th September 2002 at 22:18
RE: MD11
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