Originally Posted by
pax britanica
I posted a bit of a eulogy to the wonderful 74 in BA service some weeks ago and got some legit criticism for being premature, sadly I was right . From my first flight , KHR-JFK (Carnasie 13L approach thrown in) on thanksgiving day 1971 to October 2018 I spent many many hours from behind the wing to F and upstairs on Ba and other 74s so I am sad to see it go. It has of course had its time and BA were really something of an anachronism from hanging onto them . The 380 much more comfortable but with its own problems is nice but not a fan of the triple & which seems to me to wallow around a lot and I was not overly impressed with the 787 , too narrow for BAs sardine business class.
If I am honest I liked the Tri-Star best of that era but it didnt last that long and the 74 took me literally to every corner of the world and I will miss seeing and hearing them and LHR wont be quite the same
Pax Britanica
Totally agree with you re 787, I try to avoid them having flown on some of the earlier ones with ANA. I also did quite a bit of flying on Tristars / L1011 with TWA and BA and also sometime with BCAL/JAL DC10, and I also think Tristar was the best of that bunch, but commercially not a success.
Cheers
Mr Mac