B744 VH-OED Retirement

Brad Myer · #1 16th September 2009, 01:52 AM

Hi all,

Have some questions regarding OEDs retirement...

So this A/C operated a schedule flight to the US and was then flowen straight to "retirement"

What about the A/C interior? It has brand new Y+ seats installed etc do they just go to waste?

I remember when the B742/B743 and B762s were retired from QF the A/C were stripped of any valuable cbin items and then flowen out of SYD for retirement.

Anyone have any details?

Gerald A · #2 16th September 2009, 04:10 AM

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Mike W · #3 16th September 2009, 07:48 AM

Interestingly, from the forum link above "744s VH-OEC, OED, OJF, OJK (I deliberately left out the 767s for this discussion) are all up for sale and will be gone from the Qantas fleet by the end of this year/early 2010" so I suppose not surprisingly, the two non-'38 747's (747-4H6s) and the two troubled QF 747-438s involved in 'incidents' over the past few years.

Still leaves OEB (747-48E) and the older OJ series pre OJH and K.

Anthony J · #4 16th September 2009, 08:32 AM

What incident did OJF have?

BradR · #5 16th September 2009, 09:19 AM

OJH landed in the bunker in BKK not OJF.

I assume retirements of the 2 class RR 744s will be decided by which is next due for heavy maintenance.

Mike W · #6 16th September 2009, 01:02 PM

Apologies as per the above. I actually did mean OJH, not OJF and I think I must have had OJH on the brain assuming it would be retired because of the golf course incident. Certainly got my wires crossed.

I guess this destroys that aspect of my point then

Georgie B · #7 25th September 2009, 06:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mike W

Interestingly, from the forum link above "744s VH-OEC, OED, OJF, OJK (I deliberately left out the 767s for this discussion) are all up for sale and will be gone from the Qantas fleet by the end of this year/early 2010" so I suppose not surprisingly, the two non-'38 747's (747-4H6s) and the two troubled QF 747-438s involved in 'incidents' over the past few years.

Still leaves OEB (747-48E) and the older OJ series pre OJH and K.

*Sigh*
How I wish I was older, so I could have perhaps seen them more when they were still flying. Curse that A380!

Sarmad Al-Khozaie · #8 25th September 2009, 08:01 PM

LONG live the mighty A380..... Say good bye to 747

Grahame Hutchison · #9 25th September 2009, 08:23 PM

With 1,419 Boeing 747s built, 800 still flying and 30 years of service, the A380 has a long way to go to even scratch the surface of these numbers.

Georgie B · #10 26th September 2009, 09:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sarmad Al-Khozaie

LONG live the mighty A380..... Say good bye to 747

I never will