QF 744 Question

[Jack B]

I was watching a re-run of "Airport" from the pre-Morissey uniform days, and it featured a delay of a Qantas flight to Sydney operated by VH-OJA, 2 class 744. However, the problem onboard the aircraft originiated in the First Class cabin, and there was footage clearly showing the aircraft had a First class sky-bed style cabin with the old business class seats in the rear cabin. Were all the 2 class 744's originally 3 class?

[Anthony J]

That episode pre-dated the two class configuration. VH-OJA used to be a three class aircraft.

[Jack B]

when and why did they bother with the 2 class config?

[Sarah C]

Originally Posted by Jack Brownbill

when and why did they bother with the 2 class config?

I assume it would be when the current P class was introduced (or maybe when Skybed was introduced).

Now Airport........that was a show! I wish 9 would show it again over the wummer!

[Gareth Forwood]

does anyone know if that show's ever been released on dvd? I remember watching it years ago but haven't seen it for a while...

[Russell D]

Now Airport........that was a show! I wish 9 would show it again over the [s]ummer!

I'd second that. Airport and that other great show Airline were really something when they used to air.

However, towards the end of its days on air in Australia they seemed to just repeat past episodes, so I'm assuming they possibly stopped producing new one?

[Jason Carruthers]

I would guess and say that the 2 class 744 config came out when they were retiring there 74L and 742's around 2001/2002ish.