FJs last 747 retired - some interesting facts/ figures

[VHOEJ]

Those numbers are interesting, the definitely showed how good the two 747's were for FJ. It doesn't compare to the SYD birds but also they had the problem of the late departure so even arriving around lunchtime LAX time, it still had 10-12 hours on the ground. Then with the stop back in Nadi onto SYD, they had a long stopover (it was 2.5 hours from memory).

Already seen picture of other 747 already being broken up.

 

[harvyk]

Should we be surprised that its being scrapped and not sold on? I guess market probably isn't great for old, large capacity jets, even if there could be a few years left in 'em. Maintenance costs probably up there as well.

I never did Row 1, but flew up the front twice - great experience in daytime flight.

It's not a huge surprise that it's been scrapped. At nearly 100K hours, it's getting pretty close to the airframe hours that should another airline purchase it for pax services they wouldn't be able to do too much with it before the hours completely expire and they have to scrap it anyway, and a freighter conversion would be expensive to the point that they probably wouldn't get their money back on the conversion before it needed to be retired.

As parts it is prob worth around the 5 to 6 million mark.