777 for STL-LAX Today - Charter? (double rescue flight for diversion)
Apr 28, 2024, 1:51 pm
#18
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Apr 28, 2024, 3:46 pm
#19
Join Date: Apr 2019
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Only logically they may have had DC10 service to ORD. But with TWA having a huge presence there the entire time UA had widebody domestic service and STLs size, I doubt it.
the registration for the 777 that went had maintenance problems is N76010.
the registration for the 777 that went had maintenance problems is N76010.
Apr 28, 2024, 7:45 pm
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Apr 28, 2024, 8:54 pm
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Apr 29, 2024, 9:51 am
#24
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Remember that UA was never in STL in the 70s and did not start service in STL until roughly 1983, so there was no built-in need for high capacity in/out of STL particularly with TW hubbing there. TW did fly a widebody up to ORD (generally they routed a flight STL-ORD-LHR to make up the flight)
Apr 29, 2024, 5:56 pm
#25
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Apr 29, 2024, 6:19 pm
#26
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TWA in the good old days. I flew a TWA 747 from STL to Hawaii 32 years ago. Now there is actually one trans-Atlantic flight from STL to Frankfort three days per week. Lufthansa A330. Flew that one last year. Nice to have trans-Atlantic from STL again, but theyre giving us their old planes. The TV didnt work.