As Delta continues to thin out its Boeing 747 operations, it appears that more routes are being converted away from the type.
Delta Boeing 747-400 in flight – Image, Delta Air Lines
Currently, Delta operates a singular route with the type – Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport to Seoul Incheon. This operates as DL158/159.
This route is scheduled to continue into the winter timetable season.
Two routes that are operated by Boeing 747 aircraft will switch to Boeing 777-200ER operations at the Winter Timetable change (30th October 2017) – the Detroit to Tokyo-Narita and Detroit to Shanghai Pu dong service.
Delta’s current fleet of Boeing 747-400 aircraft came when the Delta merged with Northwest Airlines
How long the Detroit to Seoul Incheon will last as a Boeing 747-400 service is another matter. With just one route left and a reducing amount of active frames, it’s only a matter of time before Delta Air Lines finally parts company with the Boeing 747. A late evening tweet from Airlineroute
gives a little giveaway when the last one will be out of service.
DELTA has tentatively filed last 747-400 service on 31DEC17, Seoul to Detroit (subject to change)
— airlineroute (@Airlineroute) March 5, 2017
Tentative, but an indication that Deltas chapter in operating the Boeing 747 is slowly coming to a close.
Editors note: Sorry it’s been a slow week from me. The joy of a nasty stomach bug flooring me totally when I’m not able to write or string a sentence together.
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I have to admit the gradual demise of the 747 makes me very sad, especially when they’re replaced by 777s, which are visually just plain…plain. Dull. Boring, even.
Some of this might be just nostalgia on my part, I have to admit, since 747s took me on so many of my most memorable trips: Australia, my first trip to London, Frankfurt (although that one is memorable only because Frankfurt is a very dull place, at least for a business trip.)
But the aviation world will be a duller place once the Queen of the Skies gone.