Travel report: DC-10 Farewell Trip with Biman Bangladesh
23/2/2014
BHX-BHX, 150GBP p\ pax.
Biman Bangladesh DC-10-30, S2-ACR.
A friend of us told us he was going to travel to the farewell flight weekend of the passenger travel in DC-10.
Biman Bangladesh is the last operator of a DC-10 with a cabin fit for passenger transportation.
All other pax planes are either stored never to fly again, or converted to cargo, or serving other purposes as flying hospitals or firefighting.
We had flown in the MD-11, which is soon to become cargo or nothing and the DC-10 was not new.
In fact I had flown Lisbon to Rio in a VARIG DC-10 in the Summer of 1983, at the time best quality airliner in the world, but the last one was Lisbon to Caracas in 1987 with VIASA.
We knew long ago the last commercial flight would be Dhaka to Birmingham via Kuwait, announced in the media last year, and no way we would go to Dhaka just to come back.
Well, the last flight was on Friday 20th of February, but during the weekend they would do 9 scenic flights over Birmingham, Monday…
BHX-BHX, 150GBP p\ pax.
Biman Bangladesh DC-10-30, S2-ACR.
A friend of us told us he was going to travel to the farewell flight weekend of the passenger travel in DC-10.
Biman Bangladesh is the last operator of a DC-10 with a cabin fit for passenger transportation.
All other pax planes are either stored never to fly again, or converted to cargo, or serving other purposes as flying hospitals or firefighting.
We had flown in the MD-11, which is soon to become cargo or nothing and the DC-10 was not new.
In fact I had flown Lisbon to Rio in a VARIG DC-10 in the Summer of 1983, at the time best quality airliner in the world, but the last one was Lisbon to Caracas in 1987 with VIASA.
We knew long ago the last commercial flight would be Dhaka to Birmingham via Kuwait, announced in the media last year, and no way we would go to Dhaka just to come back.
Well, the last flight was on Friday 20th of February, but during the weekend they would do 9 scenic flights over Birmingham, Monday…