It seems that lately a lot of things in the airline world are coming to a close. Southwest is axing a number of routes, Singapore is pulling out of Houston after over a decade of service, and Japan Airlines is sook to completely replace its 777 service between Tokyo and Dallas with the A350-1000. Time flies, as it wasn’t very long ago that Bigfoot (6-wheel main gear bogies) was the shape of things to come in the JAL fleet, and the Queen of the Skies was getting ready for its curtain call. While JL12/11 sees scheduled 777 service through the 24th, its days in Dallas are numbered, and so I did one last flight with the JAL Triple 7 between there and Tokyo.
Server: Solo
Airline: Japan Airlines
Aircraft: Boeing 777-300ER
Origin: Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, Grapevine, Texas (DFW)
Destination: Haneda Airport, Tokyo, Japan (HND)
Flight Number: JL11
Route: KDFW-RJTT
Seat: 2A (JAL Suite)
Time En Route: 12 Hours 46 Minutes
Waiting to board
Taxiing out one last time under a water cannon salute, courtesy of the airport’s fire trucks
Sayonara, Dallas, and thAAnks for the hospitality!
Turning west over Amarillo
Over the southern end of the Rocky Mountains
North Pacific afternoon at 36,000 feet
Turning north on our descent so as not to fly right across the approaches to Tokyo-Narita
Touching down in Tokyo
In the gate in the Land of the Rising Sun