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CB> and yet there's still 40 plus year old 747's still doing the rounds
CB> without any issues
 
There are just a few companies left that still use the 747 in passenger
service ... Lufthansa that I know of, the only user of the 747-8 as a
passenger plane, and they re-activated their 747-4's which were stored in
Twente (The Netherlands), but that is temporary and will be phased out.
 
Nowhere will you find 40+ year 747's in service ... it's just too expensive
to run that kind of engine-technology and a D-check for them unaffordable.
 
BA btw has ditched all of its passenger 747s, so has KLM, AirFrance, others
... KLM has kept 3 freighters as they're relatively new. In cargo you still
see them but Cargolux has dumped all the old-ones, so has Atlas (the buyer of
the last 747) ... you may still see flying crap with Kallita ... but that's
Kallita of course. A few Asians. Some Russians were flying 747-freighters but
they're als grounded and probably will be too expensive to reactivate after
storage in inproper conditions ... they will require a D-check as well ...
 
Mojave and Pima are now one giant 747-storage area. And Teruel in Spain.
 
For Airbus stuff you need to be in Tarbes, France. 

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