From: kls@ohare.Chicago.COM (Karl Swartz)
Subject: Re: El Al Disaster
Organization: Chicago Software Works
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 12:01:36 GMT

In article <1avpilINNrft@bigboote.WPI.EDU> babu@wpi.WPI.EDU (Babu Gopalakrishnan) writes:
>In article <10545@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> harold@cs.uq.oz.au writes:
>>In <10525@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> bakker@cs.uq.oz.au (Paultje Bakker) writes:
>>>I would be grateful for any further news. Which airlines still use
>>>747-200's?

First off, my opinion:  I'm booked on a 747 ORD-SFO in about a week
and a half.  I picked that flight because the time was convenient,
because it was a 747, and because it was *not* a DC-10.  Of the two
I felt the 747 was far safer when I made the reservation, and I still
think so now.

>>QANTAS! I think they have a few. They have mostly upgraded to the 400's
>>but still fly a few 200's

>Lufthansa has some also.

Let's rearrange the question a bit to simplify the answer:

    Q.	Of the regular passenger carriers with substantial (more than
	five) fleets of Boeing 747s, which ones do *NOT* operate the
	-200 model?

    A.	None.

Ok, I may have missed one or two, but the biggest passenger 747 fleet
I could find that did *not* include at least one -200 was Swissair
with five -300s.  And a -300 is just a -200 with a longer upper deck!
(In fact, most of KLMs -200s and some others were modified with the
stretched upper deck and for all practical purposes *are* -300s.)
Out of 28 airlines (listed below) only one other lacked -200s, that
being Canadian, a newcomer to the 747 with three brand new -400s.

Until the 747-400 came along, the -200 was the most popular model of
the 747 (accounting for over half of the pre -400 production), so it's
no surprise that nearly every 747 operator has at least a few in their
fleet.

For reference, the following is a list of major passenger operators
of the 747 with fleets broken down by basic series, where major is
defined as "I thought of them."  It does *not* include the all-cargo
operators (e.g. Federal Express) which account for a large portion of
the worldwide 747 fleet, though it does include both cargo and combi
as well as passenger aircraft for the listed airlines.  The numbers
come from the latest (1992) JP and include planned deliveries through
this month.

Airline			SP  SR  100  200  300  400	total
-------			--  --  ---  ---  ---  ---	-----
Air Canada		 -   -    3    3    -    3	   9
Air France		 -   -   13   21    1   13	  48
Air India		 -   -    -    9    2    -	  11
Air New Zealand		 -   -    -    5    -    3	   8
Alitalia		 -   -    -   14    -    -	  14
All Nippon		 -  17    -    6    -   10	  33
British Airways		 -   -   15   16    -   23	  54
Canadian		 -   -    -    -    -    3	   3
China Airlines		 4   -    -    6    -    3	  13
Continental		 -   -    2    6    -    -	   8
El Al			 -   -    1    7    -    -         8
Garuda			 -   -    1    8    -    -	   9
Japan Airlines		 -   1   10   32   16   22	  81
KLM Royal Dutch		 -   -    -   12    4   12	  28
Korean			 2   -    -   14    3    8	  27
Lufthansa		 -   -    -   19    -   17	  36
Malaysia		 -   -    -    4    1    5	  10
Northwest		 -   -   12   28    -   10	  50
Philippines		 -   -    -    8    -    -	   8
QANTAS			 2   -    -    7    6   18        33
Saudia			 2   -    8    1   10    -	  21
Singapore		 -   -    -    7   14   15	  36
South African		 5   -    -    6    2    3	  16
Swissair		 -   -    -    -    5    -	   5
TWA			 -   -   12    3    -    -	  15
Thai			 -   -    -    6    2    4	  12
United			11   -   18    9    -   15	  53
Varig			 -   -    -    3    5    3	  11
		       --- ---  ---  ---  ---  ---	 ---
			26  18   95  260   71  190       660

total production	45 (a)  206  389   81  (b)

(a) JAL has both 747SR-46 and 747-146B(SR) models; I'm not sure which
    of these are and aren't included in the 206 747-100 models produced.
(b) The 747-400 is currently in production.

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