747s

Big Birds

Here we go again. Yes, those are passenger 747s out there, a whole row of them. Germany’s Lufthansa is the world’s largest operator of these old birds.

Did you know that the original 747(-100) was introduced in 1969? Boeing manufactured more than 1,500 of these big boys. American carriers abandoned the jumbo line in 2017.

Only a few dozen are still used as passenger planes. The rest have been scrapped, converted into freighters, or, as in the case of the Stockholm airport, converted into a hotel (Check out their “Jumbo Stay”). I can’t imagine that. Who can sleep on a 747?