Final 743 flights.

[Brenden S]

So the last flight is PER-SYD, I guess that the aircraft rocks up into Perth at 1550 and departs at 1640?

[Greg F]

Originally Posted by Andrew M

I think someone should post the Dreamlifter pic on that "a.net forum" and then start the rumor that the 787 program is scrapped and the Dreamlifter is going to be scrapped too

HAHAHAHA that is funny!!!

[Mick B]

Looks like the Classic is actually on the LAX run until 29 DEC.

From what I can see, it operates LAX-AKL-MEL, dep LAX 29 DEC and arriving AKL early on the 31 DEC. It then operates AKL-MEL arriving MEL at 0940 on 31 DEC.

Who knows, it might do a MEL-PER-SYD to finish up, or it might just ferry MEL-SYD to go into the hangar for the ferry flight preparation.

[Ian Nicholls]

Well, I do feel a bit of a muppet having taken a sidetrip off
a DONE5 to fly on QF566 PERSYD tomorrow....only to find
I should've gone to Auckland to get the last 743 flight.

Will be in the QF Club for a couple of hours prior and the
lovely QF system has allocated me 1A if anybody else is
on the flight and wants to say hi......

[Tracey S]

Farewell VH-EBY.
Thank you old girl for your 21 years 7 months of outstanding service with Qantas. Your final commercial service, MEL-AKL-LAX (QF25), completed today, which is also the final commercial service for the B747-338. VH-EBY to be ferried to MZJ from LAX and stored.

[Sarah C]

VH-EBY touched down in Marana about half an hour ago, after operating the QF25. 21 years of loyal service - the classics will be missed.

[Dan Hammond]

The end of an era here is the link to the Flight aware data http://flightaware.com/live/flight/QFA6012

[Mike W]

I saw the third QF 380 arrive at SYD the other day (my first live view of a QF example) as well as EBY as it left on a ferry to MEL. It was not lost on me I was seeing the last of the 743's and the first (for me) 380 at the same time.

Very sad to see the last of the polished engined beautiful 747-300.

[Dan Collins]

I'll miss them. The A330's on the SYD-PER route have nothing on the interior of the B743. I guess we were spoilt in that regard though.

At the airport, I'll miss their engines, and their SOUND! I last saw VH-EBV whilst spotting on Boxing Day and she'd even been all cleaned up. I think she operated SYD-PER-SYD, did she also do a LAX route?

Dan

[Tracey S]

Hi Dan,
Yes, VH-EBV did do the Boxing day SYD-PER-SYD run.
Both VH-EBV and VH-EBW's last commercial service was QF26 LAX-AKL-MEL.
VH-EBV will be the last bird to bid farewell.

Regards,
~ Tracey