What will become of the retiring QF 743's?
 

Are their other carriers out there who would buy these aircraft or are they all headed for the glue factory?

Currently they are being offered for sale with prices mentioned around US$6million per frame. [that was a couple of weeks ago]

There has been some interest in the aircraft notably the fact that its a 747-300 with IFE [Qantas the only ones with Personal TV's?]

More than likely they will end up with an ACMI carrier in Europe, Northern Africa where at the moment there is a demand.

The could be converted into freighters?

Time will tell though

They are due for D Checks pretty soon i recall...could be enough to turn any prospective carrier off (unless they can combine a D-Check with the freighter conversion?)

Coming to a Coke can near you!!!!

Brad

That depends, will the Coke can suffer a hole in the side of it?:D

After all those suckers are highly pressurized!

And excuse my daftness what what is an ACMI carrier?

A search of google came up with...

http://www.globalplanesearch.com/vie...easing-def.htm

I hope that I am wrong, but I suspect that their departure flight from Australia for some of them will follow the same routing as many previous members of the 'family', that being SYD-HNL-MZJ.

And we know what usually happens then.

I heard that they are all going where EBT went. The place that got EBT were rather happy with her and wanted the rest. Not sure and I heard that from another Engineer.

Where did EBT go????

A refurbisehed B747-300 fuselage (minus wings) would look terrific in Perth as a restaurant/photography/viewing platform which would form the centre piece of the proposed spotters area in the airport redevelopment.