Swadian Hardcore
Engineer
Just out of interest, which one did you like more, the 741 or 74S? I've flown on them, but not with Pan Am. I was very young when Pan Am sold their SP fleet to United. By the early-1990s the lounges and other good stuff were gone, they just felt like regular 747s.I have no clue where they flew or did not back then except for the flights I took. I flew Tokyo to JFK on a 747SP on that trip.That's not great. What was the Pan Am flight going to? I think PA2 was the round-the-world that came from JFK and would have continued to SFO. Did they ever have SFO-NRT-HKG with a non-SP 747 or did they do SFO-HKG with a 747SP? I'm thinking about that HNL stop.I have the sad record of having flown in two aircraft that were later blown out of the sky by terrorists. They were
1. Pan Am 747 Clipper Maid of the Seas - the Lockerbie bombing. I flew on it from Hong Kong Kai Tak to Tokyo many moons back Pan Am 2.
2. Air India 747 Emperor Kanishka - the bombing off the coast of Ireland. I flew on it from New York JFK to Delhi Palam via London AI 102.
Yes, Pan Am 1 and 2 were the round the world flights.