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I flew bi weekly across eu and to asia and US for years and have a very different experience, 747s (must add that these were generally from BA) were noisy and t
by tluyben2 6y ago
I flew bi weekly across eu and to asia and US for years and have a very different experience, 747s (must add that these were generally from BA) were noisy and the turbulence flights horrible (including with people crying because it is so noisy which adds to the experience in heavy turbulence); 330/350 (mostly finnair) were silent and nice. I started to pay attention after a few flights and 747s always seem to be more noisy to me so I started to avoid Boeings. Every time when I am in one (usually across eu where I cannot always pick), it is a shitshow: old & noisy and reminding me of a prop plane ride I took over Guatemala where the pilot was drunk and there were animals in back. Good riddance.
- _-___________-_ 6y agoWhich routes "across EU" use 747s?
- youngtaff 6y agoPre-covid, some of the BA flights from London to Madrid were using heavy jets due to freight loads
- tluyben2 6y agoI had one even from London to NL because that one was flying on to Indonesia I think and picked up people in Amsterdam.
- _-___________-_ 6y agoThere used to be a widebody on Madrid to Frankfurt(?) on a South American airline too. Such routes are relatively rare in Europe but do happen. It would be quite a long time since there were any 747s flying Amsterdam to Jakarta though, I think? Before they retired them I think KLM's last 747s were operating on transatlantic routes only. Edit: realised it was probably Garuda, but if it was recent it's still not a 747 - they don't have any anymore - it would be a 777.
- _-___________-_ 6y agoYes, but they were 777s, not 747s. Iberia also regularly used widebodies between Madrid and London (A330 and A350) before the pandemic, and has actually recently resumed them - one return trip per day I believe.