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\"\"<\/a>A few years ago when JAL retired it’s last B747-200SUD on a final return trip from HNL to NRT, it was met with much fanfare, filled with people who bought tickets in advance specifically<\/em> to be on that last flight.\u00c2\u00a0 I used to\u00c2\u00a0avoid the HNL-NRT run if\u00c2\u00a0I couldn’t get the later flight that was downsized to a newer B767 to specifically avoid that plane.\u00c2\u00a0 It was stinky, creaky, noisy, and uncomfortable, yet some people found some sort of nostalgia in all of that – enough to pay a premium to be on that last flight.\u00c2\u00a0 I was on it a couple of weeks before that final flight, and I don’t miss that old bird one bit.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Last October as part of its bankruptcy reorganization, JAL downsized the Hawaii-bound equipment to B767’s except for one B747-400 on the high-volume route.\u00c2\u00a0 B747’s were even deleted from the CONUS and EU routes in favor of newer, more fuel-efficient B777’s.\u00c2\u00a0 Now, that last remaining B747-400 in JAL’s passenger fleet, tail number JA 8089,\u00c2\u00a0will be retired in March.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m not sure whether it will be replaced by a B777, or maybe two B767’s with an added flight number and departure time.\u00c2\u00a0 Whatever the case, I’m sure it was a lack of appropriate equipment to replace it that stayed the executioner’s hand.\u00c2\u00a0 Unlike the final flight of the old SUD, I’m a bit ambivalent about the last flight of the 400 in JAL livery.\u00c2\u00a0 If they replace it with a triple, the number of available seats to Japan will decrease, and there will be yet another factor driving the airfares up.\u00c2\u00a0 On the other hand, I wouldn’t mind riding in a newer piece of equipment.<\/p>\n

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A few years ago when JAL retired it’s last B747-200SUD on a final return trip from HNL to NRT, it was met with much fanfare, filled with people who bought tickets in advance specifically to be on that last flight.\u00c2\u00a0 I used to\u00c2\u00a0avoid the HNL-NRT run if\u00c2\u00a0I couldn’t get the later flight that was downsized […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[7,12,18],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/saJYlx-jumbover","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}