Originally Posted by
Exsilver
Four years ago yesterday, the last three.
Can't believe it's coming up to 4 years since the final BA 747 flights. I also can't forgive ecube for scrapping BYGC or at athan/Welsh gov for not coming up with a decent display solution and working with SWAM. If a small town in middle of nowhere New South Wales can do it (HARS at Shellharbour) it's a disgrace that town on edge of Cardiff in old Wales couldn't.
Originally Posted by
traveller5
Some of us are old enough to remember the BBC Airshow from the 1990s and this one on YouTube covers BA's 747-100 retirement. It starts at about 5 minutes and 14 seconds into the episode. Enjoy!
BBC AIRSHOW BA 747-100 retirement
As for the BA 747 Classics generally I flew on them fairly frequently in the late 90s and early 2000s to JFK in the Club World Cradle seats, to Montreal in World Traveller on the Upper Deck, Cairo in World Traveller, Boston and my last flight in August 2001 on the 742 was to Seattle.
Of course the aircraft in that film survived as a testbed until 2014, so this wasn't a typical scrap run. Should have been saved long term after making it to 2014.