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By: House Cleaning: Interesting Stories I Didn’t Blog | Airline Workers Unite.

House Cleaning: Interesting Stories I Didn’t Blog | Airline Workers Unite. — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:42:37 +0000

[...] * Finnair has stopped flying the MD-11. Which is a total shame! (via Things in the Sky & Cranky Flier) [...]

By: House Cleaning: Interesting Stories I Didn’t Blog | Reporter News Blog

House Cleaning: Interesting Stories I Didn’t Blog | Reporter News Blog — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:47:55 +0000

[...] * Finnair has impasse flying the MD-11. Which is a cleared shame! (via Things encompassing the Sky & Cranky Flier) [...]

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Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:37:25 +0000

[...] * Finnair has stopped flying the MD-11. Which is a total shame! (via Things in the Sky & Cranky Flier) [...]

By: mrp alert

mrp alert — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:44:17 +0000

Omni Air has daily charter flights running LAS-HNL-LAS on DC-10s. See http://www.boydvacationshawaii.com/charterpkgs/schedules.asp for their schedules.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:53:36 +0000

I too flew on an MD-11 from New York to Helsinki (to St Petersburg). Finnair service was great; in fact, I’ve always been pretty impressed with European air service. Maybe it’s just because they serve better beer, I don’t know. I will say, that nothing compares to flight from Chicago to Frankfurt on the then-new 777 business class.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:31:01 +0000

Ah, World Airways. I worked for World from 79 – 86, at the dawn of degulation. Lots and lots of memories there. World was actually 30 years ahead of its time on the philosophy of alternate distribution channels. When we first started up, World sold tickets through Ticketron (the predecessor of Ticket Master). Of course, the travel agency community rebelled, and we soon had to jump to a traditional reservation system.

Those DC10s had a lot of stories in them, from the PATCO strike to the groundings after the AA crash. A flight attendant was crushed in the lift on of them, I think it was aircraft 104. They said her ghost was seen on the aircraft every now and then.

By: Brian Lusk

Brian Lusk — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:06:10 +0000

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My one and only MD-11 flight was Delta’s very first revenue service on February 5, 1991. It was a second section from ATL to DAL and it was almost cancelled because all but one of the revenue pax noshowed. I was one of a group of about 20 nonrevs, and we had the run of the airplane. The aircraft (N892DL) was one of the two DL initially leased before receiving their own.

As for the “Ten”, I flew on DC-10s all over the place including to LGW, HNL, ANC, SEA, LAX, and DFW on AA, CO, DL, and WA. Interestingly, these were all DC-10-10s except for a CO DC-10-30 between IAH and LGW.

By: David SFeastbay

David SFeastbay — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:48:43 +0000

gorewest wrote:

Why was the DC-10 so popular for flights to Hawaii?

I would think because most of the airlines that flew to Hawaii had DC10's in their fleet. AA,CO,WA,NW,UA all had DC10's, NW and UA also used 747's.

By: gorewest

gorewest — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:37:28 +0000

Why was the DC-10 so popular for flights to Hawaii?

By: jordan

jordan — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:38:12 +0000

I can count the few times Ive flown on DC10s. LGW-MIA on Laker Skytrain, yep…I was a kid! AA DFW-HNL-LAX and LAX-HNL-LAX. I also flew 4 trans atlantic flights on CO DC10s back in the mid 90s The one trip that stands out, was suppose to be an AA LAX-BOS flight Dec 1993, to connect me on to the BOS-LHR flight. Well an engine exploded in midflight right over Chicago. Everyone remained calm, all traffic into ORD was put on hold, and we were on the ground in about 10-15 minutes.

They had the nerve to come on the PA at the gate to tell us, they would need a couple of hours to fix the engine, and then we’d be on our way to BOS. I GOT OFF THE PLANE!!; walked over to the ORD-LHR flight and made them give me a seat on that flight. Upon arrival at LHR, my bags had already come off the BOS flight (hah). I guess the broken DC10 made it back into the air to BOS! hah! or maybe they switched aircrafts at the last minute in ORD…. who knows!

During the mid 90s, AAs flagship aircraft was the MD11. I always picked these flights over the 767-300s, since the former had a superior first class cabin! I pretty much lived on these planes, boarding about 4-6 trans atlantic flights a month for well over a year! It was a nice plane to fly on!