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I miss the 747..largely out of service...I think BA flew their last one on the PHX<->LHR route in the last year...I took the BA 747s from PHX and DEN a few times back in the 00s, as well as 777s... loved flying on 747s. I used to see the BA ones taking off out of PHX Sky Harbor on the evening flight while driving down the 10.. I also remember walking around at Honolulu airport and seeing the 747s in various liveries lined up..love that airport, the way it's laid out you get great views of the planes.

Especially considering they have dropped sedans and focus on CUV's and SUV's.

Olympic Airways (Greek carrier no longer flying to North America) A340-300 - nice livery Aerolineas Argentinas A340-300 - Argentina has had some great liveries for their fleet

@oldshurst442 AirTransat flies a lot of A330s to cross the pond. I think cruising speed advantage can be cancelled out by tail winds and head winds. The last Alitalia flight from Rome to New York was 10 hours. The pilot said it would be 1 hour longer because of strong head winds. Normally, it's 9 to come back to the U.S. and 8 to go to Italy. I've also seen the eastbound trip be as short as 7:20 because of tail winds. The 747 is just impressive to be in. One of the things, though, is that there are 3 seats out on the sides. That's more people to crawl over if you like windows. If you sit way in the back and the 747 turns 180 degrees while taxiing, you get a good spin from it compared to those sitting in the middle, near the fulcrum. With reference to Greece, I've seen Olympic's Airbus 340 going to Athens at JFK parked at the gate across the way. The 340 is probably my favorite Airbus product.

I also miss the 747. All my trips to Greece through-out the 70s, '80s and '90s were with 747s. Lufthansa and KLM. 3 trips to Greece in the 2000s were with Air Transat and they use ( I believe) the Airbus A330-300 and I think it was this airplane I was in. Its a good plane. It flies nice. But nothing like a 747. And I believe the 747 cruised at a slightly higher speed than the A330. With the A330 going to Greece was like 9 hours and coming back is like 10 hours, but I swear I remember the 747 with Lufthansa (direct flight like with Air Transat because KLM was a stop-over at Amsterdam) it was 8 going and 9 coming back home. 1 hour faster. Unless the route taken with Air Transat was a longer arc...

Probably will be better than the last electric Chinese car sold in the US... the incredible Zap Xebra

^ It starts at $45,000, and it's a totally unknown chinese brand. Good luck!!!

Just as a distraction ... I once wondered how many gallons (or liters) of fuel it took to get a fully booked 747 from somewhere on the East Coast to one of the major gateways in Europe (like LHR, FRA, or CDG) and it was almost pointless to calculate that sort of thing. If first and business class are somewhat full, they more than take care of the cost of the fuel. The low priced seats in the back, upwards of 325 of them in economy, would pay for other operating costs, overhead, and profit. Cargo would do the same. That's one possible way to look at it.

If I wanted a 3 row I'd go for the Dodge Durango over any of these..the oldest of the bunch, but I like the design inside and out.

Maybe these should replace our current taxi fleet.

Sounds like as often is the case, Ford and Chevy are let down by cheap skating their products, esp. on the interiors.

I used Uber fairly frequently..was better than a grubby taxi. And being able to call one from my phone and pay/track from my phone as needed was great...I used Uber to get to/from the airport, out to dinner and concerts downtown, etc when I didn't want to deal w/ parking, etc. Back when the world was normal.

Check out the all new Lotus EV supercar. Have to say it is a very interesting style, but does follow pretty much the rest of all the super cars for being butt on the floor. https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/lotus-evija-electric-supercar-configurator-colors-features/ To me very weird rectangle steering wheel, but the video showing all the built in areo dynamic affects are cool to watch.

Friend finally flew back from Chicago to San Francisco as he had just before the lock down, went to visit his family in Chicago for 2 weeks that ended up being 2 months as this was early to mid February. Jose told me that you had a full flight crew and no one in first class, but a total of 3 people in coach on the flight. 3 stewardesses for 3 people. each was spread out across the flight and the stewardesses also had to sit in the coach section for take off and landing to balance the plane for the 6 of them. He said it was the weirdest flight ever, but service was amazing. Flight cost was still normal prices, so they might be moving freight as the plane took a while to fill up the belly with the freight but clearly no real discounts yet. I doubt there will be as once travel starts up, I doubt there will be much. Heard from many companies that are doing decent in sales with no travel and even my company has informed the global sales staff that future travel will be very restricted since we clearly are not needing the face to face like we used too. Only face to face is the engineers who are going on site to data centers to fix hardware. This is the start of a major transition in how we do business and interact with others.

You can bet your bottom dollar there won't be one red cent of my money going to help China if I can help it. Very offensive post right here.