IBERIA 747s in New York and Madrid

[Bullet19881988]

i was a passanger on a iberia 747 from jfk to madrid in 1999 i think..

during the landing fire came out of one engine.... and the jumbo were shaking ..

[BMWyCia]

too bad iberia´s 747 have allready been destroyed

[loja258]

for my lufthansa is good airiline



[loja258]

okey man airbus is best than boein

[loja258]

iberia is very bad airiline

[bells11967]

The boeing 747 has a gear faliure on take off didnt rise it stood still , did it return to JFk it should off

[wowLinh]

Is it just me or that 747 taking off from NY (minute 1:38 - 1:43) has a problem with the rightmost landing gear? It does not seem to move at all. Is it always like that on all B747?

[gadyos1980]

the 747 looked great in Iberia colours!

[villaperalino]

los colores y la rotulación de los aviones de Iberia creo que son los más bonitos de todas las compañías aéreas del mundo.

[ursa41]

Viva Iberia: Lineas Aereas de Espana! Miss the 747 fleet, especially my favorite aircraft which I have flown in to Spain almost EVERY year back in the 1980s: "Calderon de la Barca". Nowadays, their Airbus A340 fleet is just as magnificent and I enjoy flying in them as well!

[sesnuev]

Pitty that 747 is not flying anymore...

[flashbiddy]

Viva Iberia!!!!

We used to get those at busy times in the summer at Heathrow.

[franthree]

Great vids Señor and sound! All 742's I believe?

[meetMr7]

Excellent video and sound work.

[Chelah90]

I love IBs livery on the 747!

[Rubricatus]

Nowadays Iberia only has 340-600 and 340-300 for long-range flights

[panamcunard]

I like the the IB with the crown livery on 747s but I also like on A346.

[666ElectricDragon666]

i have this plane on my Civil Aviation poster I

[mamukacool]

I was in Costa Rica by Iberia (from Madrid) .. end i want to inform you: IBERIA HAVE TERRIBLE IN-FLIGHT SERVICE... food was poor, hospitality at very low level.... avoid them!

[Starboard76]

@mamukacool .. thanks for the insight, but most of the airlines featured in all my videos (and the vids of many others) show airlines whose inflight-service ranges from horrific to mediocre...but none of that is the point of our shooting airliners. Shooting the airliners is all this is about. But thanks for the comments nontheless!

[sesnuev]

@mamukacool Pay first class so loser hahaha

[mrcable1996]

@mamukacool also ryanair and caribbean airways

[ustickjoheadupjoculo]

No other B-747 can show off as EC-BRQ aka EC-GAG by tranporting Pablo Picasso's El Guernica!!!

It's a shame that Iberia didn't donate it to Museo del Aire luckily they preserved the nose of EC-GAG I heard.

I have grow up with jumbos and fly in all of them 7? I think Iberia had 7 jumbos and recently I flew in Airbus A380 from Singapore Airlines and in my opinion it sucks you have to wait around two hours to fit all the passengers inside... plus the seats are not as comfortable as B-747.

[Starboard76]

@ustickjoheadupjoculo ..actually I miss EC-BRO (everyone says 'bro' now...but Iberia said it first!) and EC-EEK (how funny is that name?) But then again, I'm not as intimately familiar with the 'uniqueness' of IB's 747s are the locals (España) are. actually... IBERIA had 9 747s EC-BRO EC-BRP EC-DIA EC-DIB EC-DNP EC-EEK EC-GAG (was BRQ) EC-HVD (was DLC) EC-IAF (was DLC) All were 747-256s except BRO & BRP..747-156s. They leased two others EC-TBA & TBY, along with (4) 747-300s and (2) 747-400s!

[ustickjoheadupjoculo]

@Starboard76 Wow thanks for your info.

I think when my father retired Iberia still had only 7 jumbos (I lived near Barajas Airport in La Piovera) so every time you could see them parked there at the ''beguining'' of Barajas airport. I also remember around 2000-2002? then only they short of rent or leased 747 the colors were Iberia but the crew (if am not wrong where Atlanta Airways crew)

Iberia also had beautiful fleets such as DC-9s DC-10s and B-727s

[ustickjoheadupjoculo]

What can I tell you about EC-BRQ.

My father worked with Iberia 747's so I cannot tell you how pity it is to me to let go the fleet.

I will let you know that this old EC-BRQ even got to land and take off to Ted Stevens International Airport in Anchorage AK!! (lovely times for me and my family). There is also some bad story concerning the lots of repairs but it is a Piece of museum. It was a combi version with cargo at the back and passengers at the front.

[myrnaloysboy]

Absolutely brilliant - I've been on one of these birds - was quite scary and practically falling apart.

[TheSaadAhmed125]

i thought it was just a myth!!

[Starboard76]

@TheSaadAhmed125 ...what? Iberia 747s?

[TheSaadAhmed125]

@Starboard76 ya! lol!

[Sparks667]

@Starboard76 llevan retirados hace 7 años kreo

[dammmy]

@Starboard76 all retired now

[Starboard76]

@dammmy ..yes, I know..the lengthy discussion above should demonstrate that I'm well versed on Iberia's 747 history.

[Sparks667]

British Arways and Iberia

[TWA021]

I remember seeing a leased 747-400 landing at San Juan, Puerto Rico in '04

[juan141171]

I flew on that very first plane (Calderon de la Barca) to San Juan de Puerto Rico in September 2001. I love Jumbos...

[Alf340]

Wow this video is like a historic document!!. Just excellent!! Thanks for sharing with us. EC-GAG (previously registered as EC-BRQ) flew with Iberia for 31 years and more than 100,000 hours (1972-2003).

Btw...I guess the pax were tossed around quite a bit during the landing you show at the begginning of the video :P

[Starboard76]

@Alf340 yes it is certainly for the archives of history now. Luckily I found a few guys who shot a little of Iberia's 747-400s. So the 747 story is complete.

[u1r1a1c1u1n1t]

Nice video!!

I hadn't seen any video of the IB's 747s

[KwayStopMotion]

awsome

[coolharry1236]

when was this filmed?

[Starboard76]

depends, between 1998 to 2003

[alexm5488]

@coolharry1236 I'm guessing 2001 or early 2002 since you see a glimpse of both TWA and JetBlue planes at JFK.