Combi aircraft
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Combi aircraft in
Combi aircraft typically feature an oversized cargo door, as well as tracks on the cabin floor to allow the seats to be added or removed quickly.
Typically, configured for both passenger and cargo duty, the passenger compartment is pressurized to a higher pressure, to prevent potential fumes from cargo entering the passenger area.[citation needed]
Airlines
Northwest Airlines
In 1963,
The round trip routing for this flight which was operated once a week was New York-Chicago-Seattle-Anchorage-Tokyo.
The DC-7C was configured with all economy seating in the passenger cabin.[1]
By 1966, Northwest was operating jet combi service with
Braniff International
In 1968,
According to a Braniff system timetable dated July 1, 1968, the airline was operating weekday "
The freight pallets were loaded in the front section of the aircraft by forklift via a large cargo door located on the side of the fuselage aft of the flight deck while passengers boarded and deplaned via the integral air stairs located at the rear underneath the trijet's engines.
These aircraft could also be quickly changed to fly either all cargo or all passenger operations and Braniff flew the B727QC in both configurations besides operating in a mixed passenger/freight combi mode.
Continental Micronesia
An additional U.S. operator of the
One such 727 combi service operated by Continental Micronesia was flight 562 which departed Guam every Tuesday at 3:30pm and then arrived in Honolulu at 7:41am the next morning with en route stops being made at such Pacific island destinations as
LAN-Chile
Royal Brunei Airlines
In 1983, Asian operator
KLM
KLM retired its last 747-400M combi aircraft in 2020.
Air France and Lufthansa
Other European airlines operating combi aircraft in the past included Air France and Lufthansa which both operated Boeing 747 combis.
According to the
In both cases, Anchorage was used as a technical stop by the Air France and Lufthansa combi services on the polar route between Europe and Japan.
Other combi aircraft operators
A number of other airlines also flew Boeing 747 combis during the 1980s including
Some now defunct airlines from embattled nations flew combi aircraft.
Two airlines based in Iceland also operated combi aircraft:
A number of airlines in Canada also flew combi aircraft besides Air Canada and its Douglas DC-8 and Boeing 747 combi services including
In 2008
Alaska Airlines combi service
The 737-400 aircraft replaced
Alaska Airlines previously operated
Notable combi passenger aircraft
- ATR 42-300
- Boeing 707-320C
- Boeing 720
- Boeing 727-100C (including the B727-100QC "Quick Change" model)
- Boeing 727-200 (formerly operated by First Air in Canada)
- Boeing 737-200C (including the B737-200QC "Quick Change" model)
- Boeing 737-400C
- Boeing 737-700C
- Boeing 747-200M
- Boeing 747-300M
- Boeing 747-400M
- Boeing 757-200
- British Aircraft Corporation BAC One-Eleven[27]
- Convair CV-240
- de Havilland Canada DHC-7 Dash 7
- Dash 8
- Douglas DC-7C
- Douglas DC-8CF
- Fairchild F-27B
- Hawker Siddeley HS 748
- Lockheed L-188 Electra
- McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30Combi
- McDonnell Douglas MD-11 Combi
See also
References
- ^ http://www.timetableimages.com; Northwest Airlines March 1, 1963 system timetable, pages 8 & 14
- ^ http://www.timetableimages.com, March 1, 1966 Northwest Airlines system timetable
- ^ http://www.timetableimages.com, Braniff International July 1, 1968 system timetable, page 30
- ^ http://www.departedflights.com, July 1, 1983 Worldwide Edition, Official Airline Guide (OAG), Guam & Honolulu flight schedules for Continental Micronesia
- ^ http://www.timetableimages.com, Oct. 25, 1970 LAN-Chile system timetable
- ^ http://www.departedflights.com, July 1, 1983 Worldwide Edition, Official Airline Guide (OAG), Bandar Seri Begawan flight schedules
- ^ http://www.timetableimages.com, May 15, 1971 KLM system timetable, Freight Services
- ^ http://www.departedflights.com, July 1, 1983 Official Airline Guide (OAG) Worldwide Edition, Frankfurt & Paris flight schedules
- ^ http://www.departedflights.com, July 1, 1983 & Jan. 9, 1989 Official Airline Guide (OAG) Worldwide Editions
- ^ http://www.departedflights.com, July 1, 1983 Official Airline Guide (OAG) Worldwide Edition
- ^ Oct. 1, 1993 OAG Desktop Flight Guide, Worldwide Edition
- ^ "Airline History From 1996". Sky Host. 11 April 1996. Retrieved 11 December 2011.
- ^ Cheney, Daniel I. (2010). Lessons Learned from Transport Airplane Accidents (PDF). Sixth Triennial International Fire and Cabin Safety Research Conference. Atlantic City: Federal Aviation Administration
- ^ "World Airline Directory". Flight International. 10 April 1969. 557
- ^ Accounts of Operation Frequent Wind can be found in Spencer (s.v. "FREQUENT WIND, Operation"), Todd (346-387), and Isaacs.
- ^ http://www.departedflights.com, July 1, 1983 Official Airline Guide (OAG), Reykjavik-Keflavik International Airport flight schedules
- ^ Official Airline Guide, October 1993 edition, flight schedules for Kwajalein (KWA) and Majuro (MAJ)
- ^ "Home". firstair.ca.
- ^ "Our Work - Iron Maiden Boeing 757 Cabin Configuration".
- ^ https://simpleflying.com/iron-maiden-747-now/
- ^ "Boeing 737-400 Combi Aircraft Information".
- ^ "Alaska Air Cargo introduces world's first converted 737-700 freighter". 26 September 2017.
- ^ http://www.flightaware.com N764AS
- ^ http://www.alaskaair.com, Flight Information, Downloadable Timetables
- ^ http://www.airliners.net, photos of Alaska Airlines Boeing 727-100C aircraft
- ^ "Cargo freighter service | Alaska Airlines Cargo".
- ^ https://www.airhistory.net/photo/345311/G-BGTU