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Fotos minhas da despedida ao A300 foram publicadas na edição de Junho da Avion Revue.

Curious Hifly check-in at Birmingham airport on April 13th. Hifly only does ACMI/Weatlease flights and it normally the client company visible to the passengers. It seems A340-313 CS-TQM (painted all white) did a flight on that day to Hannover. Video of the T/O:

The retirement of the Airbus A300, in Europe, will take place next Sunday, 13/4/14.  Monarch's farewell flight ZB300, will be LGW-BHX, and marks the last A300 flight of a Western carrier. We still have Iran Air and Kuwait Airways flying to Europe in A300, but we are bound to see freighters only in the short term. My first flight in an A300 was in the summer of 2014 FRA-ZRH, just 50 minutes of flight, in a totally packed D-AIAR. A few months later I returned to Frankfurt in another A300. A300 retired by Iberia, rotting in Valencia: You can still book ZB300, go to www.Monarch.co.uk

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 Birmin...