Hey all wondering if anyone ever been on a airline or aircraft since been retired? I flew on a a340-300 with Emirates.
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I flew on both the American MD-80 DFW-JAX-DFW July 2019 and 757 CLT-STT-CLT March 2020 months before each of them was retired
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I’ve flown on the Delta 717. Those aren’t retired yet but they’re getting there, unfortunately.
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I flew on a Hawaiian 767-300 back in 2014 from San Diego to Honolulu and back to San Diego.
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I flew on Air Berlin , Alitalia, and Virgin America. I flew Air Berlin and Alitalia when I was around 5. I flew on Swiss’ Avro Rj-100 on a trip from Paris to Zürich.
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I’ve flew on American Airlines B757-200 once, their B767-300 3 times, and then the A333 and the A332 a couple times as well. I also flew on the AA E190 a handful of times before it was retired.
As of right now, I’ve flown on their entire operating fleet except for the B73M8, which I hope to fly on very soon. I honestly can’t remember if I have ever flown the MD80 before it was retired, but I feel like I have. Lol
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SWA 737-300
Not very exciting I know
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Ive flown on quite a bit on Alitalia - on the A319, A320, A321, E75, a B734 they had leased at some point, and also one of their long retired jets, the MD80!
Also, on JAT Airways / Air Serbia’s retired planes, namely a few of their B733s, which were the oldest ones left operating in Europe at a staggering 35 years!
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BA 747 and El Al 747
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ive flown on more retired ones than still flying lol
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Fokker 50 (Insel Air) PJ-KVM, PJ-KVG, and more all scapped or without engines, besides KVM who flies with some african airline, I think 5Y-JNR
Fokker 70 (Insel Air) PJ-FKB retired but not scrapped yet (airline banktrupt)
MD-83 (Insel Air) PJ-MDF scrapped (airline banktrupt)
MD-11 (KLM) easy guess lol
737-800, 900 (United), (American) (not retired yet) (although the AA livery i flew one has kinda retired since it was chrome)
757-200 (United) (N12116 got brought back into service recently)
A320 (United) (not retired yet)
Beechcraft 1900C (Pacific Coastal) (not retired yet)
Saab 340 (Pacific Coastal) (not retired yet)
DHC-3 Turbo Otter (Harbour Air) (not retired yet, i hope)
Q300 (Aruba Airlines) C-FEYG (kinda retired, was leased by Aruba Airlines which they no longer use)
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Crossair, Swissair, Hello, and Air Berlin.
Swissair was the Swiss flag carrier until their grounding in 2001. Crossair was a regional airline in Switzerland, flying Saab 340 and Saab 2000 as well as some Avro RJs and ERH-145. Crossair later became SWISS. Hello was a Swiss charter airline. They filed for bankruptcy in 2011 or 2012. And Air Berlin… Well, who doesn’t know Air Berlin?
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I’ve flown an American 757 in 2016.
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Kinda a small list but here are some
Delta MD-88
AirTran 737-700 and 717
KLM 747-400
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Asiana 747-400
EVA 747-400
Philippine Airlines 747-400
American 757-200
Delta 777-200ER
American 767-300ER
I was glad to fly most of them before retirement, all of them were wonderful birds
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That I can remember:
Iberia A340-300 and A340-600 quite a few times on GRU-MAD and MAD-GRU. Some of the best aircraft I’ve ever flown
LATAM A350-900 on MAD-GRU in 2016, only 6 months after they entered operation (really sad to see such modern aircraft being retired that early btw)
Avianca Brasil (went bankrupt some years ago) A319 and A318 (CGH-SDU and SDU-CGH, respectively)
And also a Gol 737-800 still wearing the VARIG livery (Gol bought what remained from VARIG when it went bankrupt and got most of the 737-800s)
Not retired aircraft nor defunct airline but a livery from a defunct airline, so I guess it counts
(this newer livery)
Source
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Air Mauritius A340-300, Monarch A332, Sky Express Jetstream 41, Flybe Dash 8, Westjet 767, Cityjet BAE146
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Thomas Cook from JFK to Manchester. Most likely to be an A330 if you ask me
Continental Airlines Boeing 737 series SEA - AUS or HOU or DFW to Birmingham, AL.
American Airlines MD-83 DFW - SEA, MD-82 DFW - MEM. Boeing 757-200 SEA-DFW.
Delta Air Lines MD-88 ATL - MEM, MD-90 SLC - SEA only 3 old liveries.
Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-400 SEA - SFO - SEA.
Aloha Airlines Boeing 737-200 Kona - HNL.
Hawaiian Airlines Boeing 767-300ER SEA - Kahului, Boeing 767-300 HNL - SEA.
Flybe (G-JECP) named: Spirit of Belfast color is purple Bombardier 8Q400 Dash Inverness - Manchester.
ATA Airlines Boeing 737-800 OAK - Kona.
Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-300 SEA - OAK. Boeing 737-500 OAK - Burbank.
Yeah, I have. I flown the AA B757-200 from KMIA-KSTL/KSTL-KMIA five times when I was 11 years old during my grandma’s emergency, summer and Christmas break, age 12 years and 13 years in the summer before it got retired. I really did not like the B757 because of the fuselage in which I expected to fly the AA B737-800 but then later on enjoyed the B757 since I liked flying to STL and back to MIA multiple times by myself. But unfortunately, AA had to retire their B757’s in 2020 due to COVID-19