Northwest Airlines 747-251Bs at Tokyo Narita

Hmmm..what would I pay to see these very same scenes from say 1978..where the Northwest jets would all' read' Northwest Orient in the silver and broken dark blue cheatline scheme? Answer: whatever it takes!

But serious, this is the next best thing i guess. Recalling the time when the big red tails were swarming all over Narita. oh the memories..!

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[LibyaStateTV]

Whoever disliked this video is a flight simulator captain....

[Starboard76]

@LibyaStateTV ...lol, good one a Flight Sim Officer huh?!

[MrPhucdatbich]

Oh man, the swarm of 742's, good times. What year was this filmed?

[am1966ath]

@Starboard76 the ''cheap " tickets has to do with when you book them...some lowcost-carriers can be more expensive than ordinary carriers if you boofk last minute..today you can pay premium price and receive nada-service. Have flown Hongkong-Taipei on THAI ..you get a food-box but the stewerdesses are gorgeous and the B777 great..but you get more on the 2.40hrs flight from Bangkok to Hongkong.

[am1966ath]

@Starboard76 NWA started serving Shanghai,Tokyo(Haneda) and Seoul , in 1947 from Detroit and Minneapolis/St.Paul..by Constellation..the only other competitior was PANAM DC-4S..neither JAL nor Lufthansa came along untill 1954/55..Tokyo-Hongkong took 8hours and Hongkong-Calcutta some 12hours..a ticket from the US to Asia was nearly the same as buying a car so it was not Mrs.Kwok from Chinatown or Barabara from Detroit who bougt a chepo ticket on the internet..thats why they had 5th freedom rights.

[am1966ath]

@Starboard76 Thats true..but in 1978 for example I flew AA B747 LAX-JFK and they had, if not SIA service so much better than you get today..warm,big meal with cutlery and glass...but with de-regulation USA skies became flying greyhound-buslines with people only caring for the price..service,food and smiles vanished.

SIA is a very rich and well-organized airline but untill mid-80S its fleet of A300 and B743/747 was small..US carriers had armadas of old aircrafts..and murdering competition.

[Starboard76]

@am1966ath ..yup..and they looked tattered and beat up when they arrived on this side of the pond too. Along with Pan Am and TWA's 747s. The reason for cheap pricing however may have had more to do with 'lesser inflight services' versus the asian carriers. The Asian carriers then and now are highly competitive when it comes to 'inflight services'. Pax on the 1:16min TPE-HKG run are treated WAAAYYYYY better than US passengers flying 4-5 hours LAX-JFK - in economy!

[Starboard76]

@am1966ath precisely, and Northwest 'owned' many of those aircraft you mentioned. NWA wasn't big into leasing until Cheechi took the helm. Those DC-9s, many which are/were 40+ years old..now that's old! But they were long paid for..so they were cash cows although they were guzzling fuel.

[am1966ath]

@Starboard76 Im not an aircraft engineer but I was amazed at what I saw from the airport-resturant at Narita T1 in August 1997...the UA & NW B747S tattered,repaired,dirty and looking ooldish...some of my Hongkong-friends told me that NW was half-price from HKG to NRT compared to JL or CX..the US carriers made a side market in Asia transporting local passangers and giving discounts..mayby the older airplanes play a part.

[am1966ath]

@Starboard76 Now I know why I saw so many old DC10S,TRISTARS & B747-200S flying around Asia in NW or UA colours in the late 1980S early1990S..Ithought that the US carriers were cash trapped and haveing huge fleets of old airplanes(Northwest Orient having a huge collection of DC-9,B727,747-200 &DC10) they mayby decided to use them instead of getting more modern and flashier planes like SIA,KE or CX..in a way that make sense..an airline fly people,not airplanes.