I’m currently en-route from Cleveland to San Francisco where I’ll catch up with United flight number 747 which departs at 11AM from San Francisco to Honolulu. It will be the final commercial 747 flight on United.
I have lots of fond 747 memories from childhood plane spotting, to first class cabins on airlines like Korean and Lufthansa, and to the amazing 747 trip I took with Rafi last year to San Francisco.
There’s something glamorous about the 747 that no other plane possesses:
I may not have been old enough to fly the Concorde, but I wasn’t going to miss today’s celebration.
United put together this tribute video to the 747:
United promises a retro flight to Hawaii, a throwback to how flying was in the good old days of aviation when United flew the 747 to Hawaii.
Here is a 1979 documentary aboard a United 747 flight to Hawaii:
You can read more about the 747 sunsetting in this CBS article.
Want to follow along? I hope to share some videos with Facebook Live on the DansDeals Facebook Group and pictures on Instagram.
I wonder if they’ll allow smoking on the flight. Dan, please let us know.
LOL
Please tell me you’ll be in J 🙂
Of course. What else are miles for?
That sounds like a lot of work just to go on a 747 even if its the last flight on UA. But have fun!
Will do 🙂
I understand final UAL passenger flight is SFO to HNL but haven’t read anything about the the next flight. Is it going to dead-head back to mainland empty or ???
Anyone know?
It’s flying back to SFO without passengers and then off to the graveyard at VCV.
why wouldnt they just fly passenger back to SFO and at least generate revenue?
I agree. Makes no sense.
Only thing I can think of is that SFO-HNL was the original UA 747 route, so they wanted that to be the last.
If they lose revenue for an entire flight for this reason…
Lots of Flyertalkers are on the flight, except me.
Should have come!
There are other airlines;)
I flew Concorde’s BA001 LHR-JFK 12/21/01
But none that will celebrate it like United will today.
#Jealous of the Concorde trip. If it stuck around for another 5 years I’d have experienced it.
I’m sure more airlines will do the same (why not?).
United has more history with the 747.
According to the first video above Continental had it before United… 😛
Yup, but Continental ditched theirs years ago.
Nice and I’m sure you would have! Its admirable how you live your passion and even make your living off it. I used to wait for Concorde to fly over my house as a kid in UK:)
kelly and honig are also going. r u gonna schmooze
Just Honig.
We shmoozed.
Lol. You could just fly LY 001 to get a 747 kick.
Better flying on planes with lie-flat seats that aren’t falling apart.
I doubt they will throw a party when they retire those.
I hope to be on EL-AL last 747 flight in year 2075!
😀
Why are they discontinuing it?
It’s a gas guzzler.
Just saw you on TPG’s Facebook Live. Have fun!
Please tell me you did decide to wear the dork shirt after all 🙂
Just the dork airplane yarmulka.
Several people have asked where I got it from. Said they would start wearing a yarmulka if it had planes on it.
He betrayed us. Neither the shirt nor the orange yarmulka.
headed to the andaz maui or just flying right back?
Hey Dan.
How’s seat 7A?
Chaim
hi Dan, was just listening to HNL atc and the controller just asked the captain of this UA747 flight to do a go around by United’s request, but the pilot said “unable” and just proceeded to land:)
Where can I listen to atc?
liveatc.net you can type in almost any airport and hear all kinds of atc live
DAN, are you going to write a trip report on the last UA 747 flight?