diverted wrote:

Believe KLM will take the 742 and 744.Believe 742's PH-BUI and PH-BUH, which then went to Southern Air(N746SA and N748SA) were both retired at right around 135,000hrs. Some of their 744's are getting awful close to that too

UnitedIsBae wrote:

the MD-10 that crashed at FLL had 44 years, so that had to be a lot of cycles

na wrote:

diverted wrote:

Believe KLM will take the 742 and 744.Believe 742's PH-BUI and PH-BUH, which then went to Southern Air(N746SA and N748SA) were both retired at right around 135,000hrs. Some of their 744's are getting awful close to that too

This topic comes up every other month. Last one was 2 months ago max. I wonder why some people are too lazy to check every recent posts.
Anyway, if it comes to flight hours the still flying early-built 744s of KLM (like PH-BFB/C/D/E) are on very top (at least no one ever came up with another proven suggestion), surpassing even the former recordholders, 2 former KLM 742SUDs flying for Southern Air towards the end.

Lebombo arrived at the then Jan Smuts airport on 6 November 1971 and now thirty-two years old in 2004 this Jumbo has clocked 20 291 cycles with 107 000 flying hours and has spent twelve and a half years airborne. Lebombo was delivered brand new to SAA in November 1971 from Boeing in Seattle at a cost of R17 million and has flown 481.5 million nautical miles or 886 million-Km using 160.5 million litres of Jet A1. Lebombo has used 3384 tyres at a cost of R10 000 each – R30.4 million - nearly double the purchase price of the aircraft. She has carried six million passengers and the world’s fleet of 1375 B747s manufactured to date have carried more than 3.5 billion passengers. Capt. Dennis Spence was but a teenager. His original first officer’s duty was a flight to London on Lebombo in 1988 and he later received his first command on the same aircraft in 1998 also to London. Weighing in at 231 metric tonnes, the Boeing 747 was extremely light, rotated at 142 knots and climbed out of JHI like a “homesick angel.” Speaking from the “sharp end”, Dennis was happy to report that every single component on the aircraft was in perfect working condition and that the acceleration was “better than an M3 on steroids.”

seahawk wrote:

LH 747s:

D-ABVH (1991-2015) 124243 hrs/14911 c
D-ABVK (1991-2015) 124772 hrs/14978 c

Balerit wrote:

Lebombo has used 3384 tyres at a cost of R10 000 each – R30.4 million - nearly double the purchase price of the aircraft.

WIederling wrote:

Interesting LH @8.3h per flight seems to do longer legs
than SAA @ 5.45h per flight.

Armadillo1 wrote:

I hope this is not "too old" topic.

why 777 and a330 going to scrap so early comparing to 744 and MD11?

(from other old topic:
MD-11, Lufthansa Cargo, S/N 48413, L/N 488, D-ALCO, 139.224h 25.272cyc (31.12.2010)
)

Armadillo1 wrote:

I hope this is not "too old" topic.

why 777 and a330 going to scrap so early comparing to 744 and MD11?

(from other old topic:
MD-11, Lufthansa Cargo, S/N 48413, L/N 488, D-ALCO, 139.224h 25.272cyc (31.12.2010)
)

UAL916 wrote:

Going over N853FD a Fedex 777 delivered in 2009, as of November 2015 the Flight hours report as 252, however 3,718 cycles. Can anyone explain how this is possible?