more recent example -- Alaska announced that the last flight of their 737-400 would be on 4 Nov 2017, the Inside Passage milk run JNU-PSG-WRG-KNT-SEA ... it was a clear and beautiful day, so
Mrs767 and I took the morning flight up to JNU, got a rental car, and drove around to see the glacier and downtown and a few other scenic areas before meeting up with
Seat 2A for the southbound trip (he was of course in his namesake seat; we had 1D/1F)
when we disembarked at SEA we noticed that the sign behind the podium showed a flight to Sacramento leaving an hour or so later; the agent indicated the originally assigned jet was delayed inbound, so Ops and Dispatch had commandeered N767AS ... it returned to SEA the next morning on its actual last flight, but we were on the last one that anyone could have knowingly booked in advance as a -400
some of our photos in
this and the next few posts (79-81) in the
"Views From Above The Wing" thread on the Alaska Airlines board