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hikouki Mar 9, 2025 8:12 pm

Hunting for the 732 and 736.
 
The 737-200 and -600 are so far the only existing 737 types I have not flown on.

Do some of the Canadian airlines still fly them? Do they have them on scheduled charters? Open to the public for booking?

AC681 Mar 10, 2025 7:28 am

Air Inuit still uses the 737-200 on scheduled passenger flights. Their flight schedule page (https://www.airinuit.com/en/book/flight/flight-schedule) lists aircraft type.

WestJet retired the 737-600 I do not believe there are any 737-600s operating in Canada .

hikouki Mar 10, 2025 3:34 pm


Originally Posted by AC681 (Post 36948129)
Air Inuit still uses the 737-200 on scheduled passenger flights. Their flight schedule page (https://www.airinuit.com/en/book/flight/flight-schedule) lists aircraft type.

WestJet retired the 737-600 I do not believe there are any 737-600s operating in Canada .

Whoa! the roundtrip ticket from and to Montreal is CAD4K+!

EmailKid Mar 10, 2025 4:22 pm

According to Wikipedia, there were 991 -200 frames delivered, while only 69 for -600.

I know for sure I've flown -200 at least once, with one aborted takeoff at high speed (not counting that one as we never got off the ground, and much to my amazement stopped just short of end of runway).

I am pretty sure I've never flown -600 and now that WestJet got rid of theirs, I am pretty sure the odds are very, very low I'll ever get a chance.

C'est la vie .....

It's 747-8 that I feel is lacking in planes I've never flown :( Well that and the Concord ......

AC681 Mar 10, 2025 8:01 pm


Originally Posted by hikouki (Post 36949172)
Whoa! the roundtrip ticket from and to Montreal is CAD4K+!

The airlines that use the 737-200 in Canada use them to fly to very remote and isolated communities. Some on gravel runways.....

YVR Cockroach Mar 10, 2025 9:01 pm

Looks like the 737 fleet has really been cut down. SK used to have 30 examples of the -600 so almost half of production but only 1 737 of any flavour for medevac uses these days. Did manage to fly one exactly once, WS between YLW and YVR. Also old enough to have probably flown on a -100.

hikouki Mar 10, 2025 11:08 pm

I have flown on just about every 737 type, except the -100, -200, and -600. And also the combi.

Otherwise, I have flown on the 733 all the way to the Max 9.

The -600 is just a big gaping hole. I would have to fly to Algeria just for it. LOL

EmailKid Mar 11, 2025 12:40 am


Originally Posted by YVR Cockroach (Post 36949700)
.... Also old enough to have probably flown on a -100.

I would not be so sure about that. Only 30 were made, and two of those were for NASA.

IIRC one of those is sitting in a museum in Seattle (along with one of the Concords).

tracon Mar 11, 2025 8:30 am

Aeroflyer does charter work with a pair of -600s.

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/c-gkfq

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/c-gkfp

Xyzzy Mar 11, 2025 8:42 am


Originally Posted by hikouki (Post 36949810)

The -600 is just a big gaping hole. I would have to fly to Algeria just for it. LOL

S:p tempting! Anyone else up for a trip? (Looks like Janet still flies these too...)

YVR Cockroach Mar 11, 2025 11:25 am


Originally Posted by EmailKid (Post 36949879)
I would not be so sure about that. Only 30 were made, and two of those were for NASA.

Flew ML 737s at least once xSIN-xKUL and/or v-v when I was a kid and the 737s were brand spankin' new. ML had 5 such copies (transferred to SQ of which I have never flown any of its narrowbodies other than lots on its 707s - never on its 727s or 757s) but also looks like ML had 2 -200s (only 1 apparently made it so SQ) so it'd seem I would have a ~72% chance.

Also flew on a LH 737 xMUC-LHR once in the very early '70s. Not as confident it was a -100 however.

hikouki Mar 11, 2025 9:55 pm


Originally Posted by tracon (Post 36950600)

I live halfway between SEA and YVR. I suppose I can drive up to YVR and fly to Kelowna and back!

Although the problem is that on the Air North web site, they do not show the aircraft other than '737'???


Originally Posted by Xyzzy (Post 36950625)
S:p tempting! Anyone else up for a trip? (Looks like Janet still flies these too...)

As long as it is on one of the planes I'm hunting for...:D

Symmetre Mar 12, 2025 5:42 am

I have flown on both the 200 and 600 variants. Trust me, you're not missing anything.

Xyzzy Mar 12, 2025 6:39 am


Originally Posted by Symmetre (Post 36952777)
I have flown on both the 200 and 600 variants. Trust me, you're not missing anything.

It's about experiencing every variant.
My last 732 flight was on VV. I'd been h:Dping for the scheduled Yak-42, and paid more for that flight over one on W6 on something up-to-date and boring. A last minute schedule change brought us a 732, complete with low bypass engines and clamshell thrust reversers.

YVR Cockroach Mar 12, 2025 12:38 pm


Originally Posted by Symmetre (Post 36952777)
I have flown on both the 200 and 600 variants. Trust me, you're not missing anything.

True enough. Other than observing the different cabin interior design (I have flown 737s with open overhead storage and the breadbox oxygen mask, ventilation and reading light housings), it's all the same unless you have some degree of luxury seating (probably only in the 737s operated by Privatair for KL among others).

The only other attraction of flying an early 737 is using the self-stowing stairs that these a/c could be equipped with if you get to a hardstand airport (sort of like using the tail cone stair of a 727 or DC-9, not sure if the M80s every came with these).

I'm one of those who has flown on too many 737-200s (including the only WS -200C, in all-pax configuration), too many -300s and -400s (handful of -500s on LH and CO), and a smaller amount of -700s, -800s and -900s (as well as the sole -600). Only one Max flight so far and that's on a MH 7M8. Hard to tell them apart other than the cabin interior.


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