NAC: DC-10's

[Hayes Myers]

I'll concur then that effectively zero in use for passenger travel :)  I'd
think there are a few doing illicit cargo runs too.

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Marc Boucher <mboucher70 at hotmail.com>wrote:

> I was just waiting for someone to take issue with the aircraft comparison.
> Though I was certain that the issue would be that its a bad comparison
> because airline maintenance will involve pretty much swapping out every part
> of the aircraft several times over the aircraft's life.  Comparison could
> also be seen as inappropriate because of the much higher cost of failure of
> a commercial aircraft.
>
> But I stand corrected (partially) for using the DC-10 in the example.  I
> thought that KLM were using them when I spotted one last week, but I checked
> my facts and they actually use the MD-11.   So DC-10's are not used for
> passenger traffic anymore...except in Oklahoma :)
>
> I've definitely flown on some jets that I'd wished had been retired
> earlier. Early generation Airbus 300's come to mind.  I'm sure that's
> nothing compared to people who've flown on aging Soviet jets.
>
> I never much liked the DC-10.  And once it left debris on the runway at CDG
> causing the Concorde's demise, I never quite forgave it.
>
> ------------------------------**--------------------
> From: "Jeff Waterstreet" <jwaterstreet at tds.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 3:06 PM
> To: "'Hayes Myers'" <hayesmyers at gmail.com>
> Cc: <quattro at audifans.com>
> Subject: RE: Checklist for Reliability of Older Audis
>
>  I just checked; none of the major scheduled commercial airlines in the US
>> or
>> any major country have any for that matter, except a small charter airline
>> company in Oklahoma has 8.  There are a couple flying passenger service in
>> Peru and Bangladesh, not airlines that most of us would fly on under any
>> circumstance.
>>
>>
>>
>> Fedex owns most of the 100 or so still flying, around 75.
>>
>>
>>
>> From: Hayes Myers [mailto:hayesmyers at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 2:52 PM
>> To: Jeff Waterstreet
>> Cc: quattro at audifans.com
>> Subject: Re: Checklist for Reliability of Older Audis
>>
>>
>>
>> True? Or only in America? pretty sure they fly passenger in other parts of
>> the world.
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Jeff Waterstreet <jwaterstreet at tds.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>> "Major airlines still fly DC-10's or even older, alongside 777's, and they
>> achieve comparable reliability by doing more maintenance on the older
>> members of the fleet."
>>
>>
>>
>> This comment uses a bad example; the last DC-10 was retired in 2007.  They
>> don't fly passenger service anymore; just freight.
>>
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