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Been parsing the airline routes site and Expedia. Looking to take the kids on a 747 on a medium to long haul flight before they retire the last of them. There is a Cathay Pacific Bangkok to Hong Kong to Haneda (2nd leg is 747-400) and also that Thai Bangkok to Haneda nonstop... Looking for other recommendations. BA and UA seem to still operate many of them...

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You are on the right track:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Boeing_747_operators

BA seems the biggest operator of 747.

Cathay Pacific has many.

Korean Air also quite big and quite likely flying from Bangkok.

KLM, Lufthansa, China Airlnes, Thai Airways.

Now you would have to go through the list and check whether they fly 747 from Bangkok.

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Thai Airways to Hong Kong, Munich.

A short taster: Thai Airways to Singapore.

China Airlines to Taipei (not my choice).

Not so many I can find from Bangkok.

(I only checked 747 from Bangkok, no connecting flights)

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Definitely upper deck one way and in the nose (not first, but next best) on the way back. Thanks for the replies. The real upstairs before Airbus decided to just put everyone upstairs too. Leaning towards that Cathay flight.... because it looks like they'll discontinue it around late 2Q or 3Q, it's 4 hours so not too short (with a 2 hour long meal service), and I trust Cathay more than TG operating a 20+ year old airframe.... and the price is right.... only around 37,000 Baht roundtrip (compared to ANA, Japan, etc. with their direct flights at around 47-60k).

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You have just missed out domestically. TG used to fly the 744 during the winter peak season to Chiang Mai and Phuket. They will probably operate it during Songkran peak days.

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Yeah, I noticed those before actually, but it felt kind of out of the way to do that route... even though it's of course more out of the way to connect through HK just to ride the Queen of the Skies, or connect through Taipei just to fly Helly Kitty (EVA) I guess.

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Orient Thai was flying a 100 series for a long time... a true vintage a/c experience!

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Does the latest 747 variant count, the 747-800. Air China have just got one delivered and it quite easy to get a cheap ticket to JFK on it. Korean and Lufthansa operate it I believe too.

The Orient Thai 747-400's have been forced to stop flying to HK due to safety issues just a few weeks ago. I wouldn't fly on those though.

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Orient Thai was flying a 100 series for a long time... a true vintage a/c experience!

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Amen. I'm surprised they don't at least repaint her to hide her age.

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Does the latest 747 variant count, the 747-800. Air China have just got one delivered and it quite easy to get a cheap ticket to JFK on it. Korean and Lufthansa operate it I believe too.

The Orient Thai 747-400's have been forced to stop flying to HK due to safety issues just a few weeks ago. I wouldn't fly on those though.

All variants have their own charm. The 800 is of course more comfortable.... I like the 400s because of the operational time frame, from before I was 20 (I'm 41 now) all through the years as they have been steadily retired... my first trip abroad alone was on a People Express 747 (not a 400, not sure what make; I'd guess a 100) when I was 8-9... no frills and something like $200-$300... and it's a nice little complete 'circle' to be able to regularly fly upper deck without having to think so much about the cost (when as a kid it was always... yeah, someday when I'm playing professional tennis or when I own enough Supercuts franchises...).

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Window seats towards the back can be good too for engine noise and watching the wing do a transformers during approach and landing

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Malaysia Airlines' A380 are undergoing scheduled maintenance in the next weeks/months and they obviously bring back to service their B-747 on the LHR route. There is a promotion now (that started April19th) which offers one-way tickets from BKK to LHR via KUL at 11.500 THB - that includes ALL taxes and fees, 30 KG free luggage. Of their two daily flights to LHR, one is supposed to be served by B-747 for some time.

To confirm, I recommend to call their BKK office, where they are quite on the ball, unlike the useless MAS call center in KL, where unfriendly indifferent agents with a difficult to understand English will have no clue what you are talking about after u waited in the queue for 25 minutes.

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I love Cathay, but be aware that intra-Asia,they have frequent aircraft swaps, so you may not get on that 744 that you booked originally.

Yes, so for hobby-esque trips like these I always check Flight Aware as well. The Hong Kong - Haneda route has been pretty reliable for Cathay 744.

But I am going to also back it up with a TG flight (which I usually avoid whenever possible) in March. 744 there and A380 back.... an old and new thing.

As for Malaysian, some good memories there, but now that their finances are the way they are, I avoid them like TG.

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Make sure to get the kids to visit the flight deck for a look after landing. I would hope the crew would accommodate that request.

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