Elal MD11
Oct 22, 2011 | 2:43 pm
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Elal MD11
I'm suprised, but according to Airfleets Elal was operating a MDII from Jul 1998-Jan 1999, I also a found a picture of the aircraft in Elal colours in Zurich and LAX (In those days they seemed to paint aircaft in Elal colours even if the aircraft was only operating for 6 months, while nowdays things seem very different).
Anybody have any info on this aircraft, and why they were operating this plane for these months? The aircraft seemed to stay registered in the US (you can see the US registration in the picture).
Anybody actually flew on this aircraft?
Anybody have any info on this aircraft, and why they were operating this plane for these months? The aircraft seemed to stay registered in the US (you can see the US registration in the picture).
Anybody actually flew on this aircraft?
Last edited by ELAL; Oct 22, 2011 at 2:48 pm
Oct 22, 2011 | 3:26 pm
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I flew an LY flight on that plane.
It was a wet lease from World Airways.
The pilots were non El Al but I think the flight attendants were.
It was a long time ago.
El Al occasionally did things like this during high-demand seasons, though they haven't recently.
It was a wet lease from World Airways.
The pilots were non El Al but I think the flight attendants were.
It was a long time ago.
El Al occasionally did things like this during high-demand seasons, though they haven't recently.
Oct 22, 2011 | 8:50 pm
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Very interesting
Right. Nowadays, the planes are owned by LY and flown many years by them, and STILL don't get the right livery 
Oct 23, 2011 | 2:09 am
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although back than they also had this weird idea of only painting part of the livery, this aircraf's tail only has the top of the livery, the blue tail is missing
Oct 23, 2011 | 9:54 am
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Oct 23, 2011 | 3:08 pm
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Oct 26, 2011 | 5:09 pm
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Which was not fair.... A lot of people are selecting their airline according to how safe they rate it... So they chose to fly El Al and were actually flying another airline without being informed.
Regarding the livery, it is understandable that a plane would not be painted in the full El Al livery for just a few weeks/months.... Btw, today number of leased airplanes is much higher in the El Al fleet than it was in the 1990s.