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Postby Rayed R » Mon Nov 07, 2011 11:27 am

as u all know Biman is one of the last civil operators to fly this tri-jet classic(my inner intuisions say that they are the only civil operator)...what are your thoughts on this as they will be soon phased out of Biman's fleet since the 777s have started to arrive from october???
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Re: Biman DC-10-30...any thoughts to share?

Postby ApplePie » Tue Nov 08, 2011 4:35 pm

Well FedEx has a large fleet of DC-10s (60 to 70-ish, I think?). So it will be quite a few more years before the DC-10 is completely phased out of civil service.
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Re: Biman DC-10-30...any thoughts to share?

Postby Rayed R » Wed Nov 09, 2011 10:50 am

Well FedEx has a large fleet of DC-10s (60 to 70-ish, I think?). So it will be quite a few more years before the DC-10 is completely phased out of civil service.


i completely agree with u ApplePie..but i actually wanted to mean passenger aircraft :P...sorry for the mis-info
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Re: Biman DC-10-30...any thoughts to share?

Postby expat » Thu Nov 10, 2011 3:37 am

Omni Air International are using DC10-30 for pax and at this time have no plans to stop using the 10.

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Re: Biman DC-10-30...any thoughts to share?

Postby C » Thu Nov 10, 2011 6:34 pm

Omni Air International are using DC10-30 for pax and at this time have no plans to stop using the 10.

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Aye, certainly for the next decade whilst half the west's armed forces are in the middle east!

Comfy business class seats though... ;D
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Re: Biman DC-10-30...any thoughts to share?

Postby expat » Fri Nov 11, 2011 4:39 am

Omni Air International are using DC10-30 for pax and at this time have no plans to stop using the 10.

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Aye, certainly for the next decade whilst half the west's armed forces are in the middle east!

Comfy business class seats though... ;D


The only business seats I ever got to use on Crab Air was in the back of a Herc flying from Goose to Gut. I found a bit cargo net that was going from one pallet to another and was nicely sagging between them. As soon as we were able to get up, I jumped between. The only time I was ever able to sleep on a Hercules ;D ;D

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Re: Biman DC-10-30...any thoughts to share?

Postby Rayed R » Fri Nov 11, 2011 9:09 am

but isn't Omni Air a charter airline?...is there any DC-10-30 users of scheduled passenger airliners apart from Biman???
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Re: Biman DC-10-30...any thoughts to share?

Postby Mictheslik » Wed Nov 23, 2011 8:34 am

Saw one a few years back at Manchester....looked like it was about to fall apart on the taxiway. I certainly wouldn't fancy flying on an airliner that old that's probably been maintained pretty poorly. Weren't they banned from the EU for a while?

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Re: Biman DC-10-30...any thoughts to share?

Postby C » Fri Nov 25, 2011 5:18 pm

but isn't Omni Air a charter airline?...is there any DC-10-30 users of scheduled passenger airliners apart from Biman???


It is, mainly military charters.
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Postby expat » Sat Nov 26, 2011 4:55 am

I certainly wouldn't fancy flying on an airliner that old that's probably been maintained pretty poorly. .mic



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Re: Biman DC-10-30...any thoughts to share?

Postby garryrussell » Wed Dec 21, 2011 7:21 am

I think most, if not all the FedEx are rebuilt to MD-10 standard
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