Originally posted by steve rowell
There are no 742’s left in the Qantas fleet, they have four 743’s in service at the moment with another two being fitted out to 744 cabin standard at Avalon in Victoria, they will come back into the fleet about mid year making a total of six

Looks like they plan on holding onto them for a while, then. One is still painted in Nalanji colours, no doubt. I flew on a QF 742 about 2 1/2 years ago, and the interior was pretty ragged.

Ichi,

I was in Vegas yesterday, as well. I flew out of there at 8:15 p.m. on United, so I noticed you didn’t take a pic of my aircraft. It was supposed to be a TED flight, but wound up being a mainline UA flight instead. Same thing happened to me on the way up there on Friday night. It would have been nice to have known this ahead of time, that way I could have upgraded to First class.

Thank you very much for that, Elias. The amount of research you did on this is incredible, and I in no way ever expected you to put forth that amount of effort in this. I am very appreciative. Everything you say, makes sense, especially of the strengths of the unions. Because of all the red tape that occurs, it is impossible to operate an airline profitably. Does the ‘new’ Olympic have to deal with the same nonsense that the old one did? If so, what was the point of making a ‘new’ OA out of the ‘old’ OA with the same aircraft, routes, etc?

Originally posted by Whiskey Delta
On a similar note, are there any easy ways to tell a difference between a 741 and a 742? The joke I’ve heard is that if it has a brown tail (UPS) then it’s a 741. 🙂

Not that I know of. If it has 3 upper deck windows, it’s definitely a -100. However, later versions of the -100 had the 10 upper deck windows of the -200. UPS has -100’s and -200’s so I don’t know about that joke.

Skylinerworld, since I like you, I’m going to provide some helpful advice. Perhaps you should reply to threads for a while, rather than starting some on your own. Try this for a few months, to get into the flow of things. After that, you might see what is a cool topic to post and what isn’t. Don’t take this personal, and nobody is telling you to leave. Keep coming in here, and keep contributing.

Looks like the No. 1 engine has a piece of the old wunnala dreaming cowling.

Re: Latest on OzJet

Originally posted by steve rowell
But Transport minister John Anderson poured cold water on Stoddart’s plan to operate from Sydney’s Bankstown airport

Just as I was saying when the original thread on OzJet went up, there’s no way they’ll be allowed to operate in and out of Bankstown.

Originally posted by steve rowell “If the governments are willing to allow jet services into secondary airports such as Essendon, Virgin Blue would like to review the matter as soon as possible,” Virgin spokesman David Huttner said.

This would also come into play as well. If OzJet can, why can’t DJ?

Originally posted by steve rowell California’s “John Wayne Airport in the US is probably the world’s most noise sensitive airport and the whisper jet (146) is the only aircraft that has been approved to operate in and out of that airport”, he said.

The ONLY aircraft? This is completely false. 757’s, 737’s series 300-900, MD-80/90’s, Airbus narrowbodies, and even FedEX MD-11’s routinely operate in and out of there.