Many many 747 flights on many carriers all over the place. Such a great aircraft, iconic and served some of the best airlines so well.
Picking out a few notables:
- SQ F MEL-SIN-LHR v/v around 2004. In the nose, early evening arrival into LHR guy fawkes night... literally flying into LHR as fireworks covered the sky.. and I was still allowed a glass of bubbles as we descended into this gorgeous view. Amazing.
- AN 747-300 SYD-HKG. Sitting in Y up in the bubble (one of the rare carriers to have Y up there) and spent time in the coughpit as the sun set across the cntinent after leaving SYD. Crew were fantastic
- CX 744 in F HKG-SFO. just indulgent in the quiet of Zone A.
- UA 747-400 in F on one of the first LAX-MEL nonstop flights around 2000. Bonus I had picked the flight number via a friend of mine in UA planning. Yeah it was UA but they were much better back then, and I kinda felt like UA 877/878 were "my" flights
- CO 747-200 BOS-LGW in Y. 1993 or so. Yes it was Y. Yes it was CO.. but sure there something so special about "The Queen" still made it fun.
but I think my most fun or fund memory was none of these.
QF 744 VH-OEJ doing a charity flight out of MEL for the Royal Children's Hospital. I am going to guess early 90's or so. Good Friday QF used to do these for many years and I hopped on for one with all the wide eyed kids and happy parents for an hour or so of low level joyrides acound MEL. It was a free for all you'd never see today with kids (and nerds alike) able to walk over the aircraft from row 1 back and up to the coughpit as we were only a few thousand feet up. So much fun. Raised some money for a good cause and had a blast. Crews were all so wonderful (donated time) and showed everyone a great time. Just a special memory to me.