"Delta" Wins; NWA to Disappear

SMS wrote:

I wonder what is the oldest 747 still in regular scheduled passenger
service is. For U.S. airlines, NW has the oldest.

I think JAL or ANA are flying the oldest passenger-service 747s. The
oldest one out there, though, is flown by UPS - it's 38 years old.
--
dgs

Paul Frankenstein wrote:

In article , Chilly8 wrote:
* According to Ultmate Traffic, NWA does not fly 737 or 767
* aircraft. NWA flies these aircraft
*
* Fokker 100
* Airbus 319, 320, and 330
* Boeing 727, and 747, and 757
* Douglas DC-9 and DC-10
*
* One feature can tell me, from the schedules, what aircraft a
* particular airline flies, and the afforementione aircraft is what
* Ultimate Traffic says that Northwest is using, as of right now.

The NWA website, which I assume is authoritative,

NWA's website is authoritative. Numbskull8 is delusional, and is too
stupid to tell the difference between his stupid little simulation game
and a real airline.

says that NWA flies

B747
A330
B757
A320/319
DC-9
CRJ-200
CRJ-900
EMB-175

No 727s and no DC-10s.

Yep. All of those are retired types from NWA's fleet.

dgs wrote:

NWA's website is authoritative.

Actually, not as authoritative as one might think. These pages generally
include only aircraft currently in service. For all we know, NW might
still be paying lease payments on its DC10s (until lease contract
expires) and have them parked in the desert, ready to put back in
service should it ever need them.

And when NW finally replaces its DC-9s, since it owns them lock stock
and barrel, it will probably remain their owner until it decides to have
them scrapped because the value of the scrap (for recycling) will be
more than the resale value of 50 year old DC9s.

From a scheduling point of view, those web site are pretty accurate for
current schedules though.

Good riddance ... I won't fly either one, Delta or Northwest .. I will
concede Delta employees are one step above Northwest employees, which
still isn't saying much.

On 4/16/2008 5:33 PM Chilly8 ignored two million years of human
evolution to write:

Since I DO travel around the world,

No, Chuckie, you don't. You've never been anywhere, except in your
deluded fantasy world.

for my online radio
station,

Your "online radio station" that nobody listens to, Chuckie? Your
phony "online radio station" that has only one listener, and that's
you, isn't that right, Chuckie?

I find UT a MUST, becuase it has MANY airlines
NOT FOND in Expedia, Orbitz, etc

You're a deluded idiot, Chuckie. UT has very little to do with actual
airlines and their schedules. It is utterly useless for scheduling air
travel or for getting current, up-to-date information on airline fleets.

I noticed that one "patch" for UT removed Aloha
Airlines. I wonder why one of the sites that update
UT, in between major updates published by Flight 1
removed Aloha Airlines from Ultimate Traffic scheules.

Because, Chuckie, Aloha Airlines went out of business, but in your
stupid little delusional fantasy world, where reality doesn't intrude,
you'll never figure that out, will you, Chuckie?

I wonder why NWA got rid of the DC10 and F100
aircraft. The DC-10 is a long range aircraft that can
hold a lot of passengers. I cannot figure out why
NWA got rid of the DC-10

You're a knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing moron, Chuckie. NWA,
like many other airlines, retired their DC-10s because they were
aging and ineffiecient - just like you, Chuckie. But you're too
stupid and clueless to figure that out, aren't you, Chuckie?