Sad thing for us. I apologise. Im sorry. It gets sold on for scrap metal. I am on a voyage to witness the last days of the jumbo jet and treats the pioneers that half a century ago, put this giant in the skies. The first giant 747. They buy an aeroplane this big would not fly. Symbol of power, beast of burden and shes carrying over 5 billion of us across the planet. Now is it in the production. It is with a heavy heart that we see this. Covid19 is written the final chapter. Covid i9 pandemic has decimated demand for air travel. Worldwide, these giants of aviation are parking up these giants of aviation are parking up many never to fly again. British airways is scrapping its entire fleet of 31 74 sevens klm, virgin and qantas also saying goodbye. We are not anticipating seeing particularly long haul passenger return out of 2024, 2025. There is not enough demand to justify the use ofa not enough demand to justify the use of a very large aircraft. Oil prices, imagine the 747 having few ye
The Met Office has issued a string of weather warnings from 12pm today as the first named storm of the season makes landfall with 80mph winds and 2.4in (60mm) of rain.
I returned yesterday from a 2-week break, whilst this was a leisure trip, it involved J-class travel, and we covered 7 countries, and 5 airlines so I thought…