As the price of jet fuel increases, those Hummers in the sky are decreasing. When was the last time you flew on the following:

A. 727
B. 707
C. DC-8


A. Right after 9-11; Nov. 2001 from Miami to Montego Bay, Jamaica (American)

B. Never (didn't start flying until I was in my 20's.

C. Never

The B-707 was a narrow body jet. In its day, it was called a flying coffin. Unfortunately, today's B757 is remarkably similar.

727 - till early 90's. AA has tonnes of them, and I used to connect from IAH-DFW for its NRT flights. It's always 727 for that short hop, sometimes a Alaska Air plane, but with AA flight crew and service.

707 & DC-8 - In the late 70's, my parents took me and my sister from Hong Kong to Taiwan for vacation quite often. It's basically one or the other. CI, CX and SQ use 707, while Japan Asia use DC-8 on this route.

Last 727 was probably sometime in the '80s, most likely on Alaska Airlines.

Last 707 was on Lufthansa, FRA-ANC, 1978. I remember it clearly because it was the filthiest, least comfortable plane I'd ridden on that year, and let me tell you that's saying something.

Last DC-8 was probably one of UAL's lovely super-61s flying all around the country in the '70s. Gorgeous airplanes hand crafted with loving care by skilled artisans working happily under benign supervision and visionary management at Douglas' C plant in Long Beach, California. (I say that because I was one of the skilled artisans working happily as a jig builder and rivet bucker at said plant. Mostly true except for the parts about skilled, happily, benign and visionary )

Another narrowbody jet I've flown on several times, but no longer in service, is the Hawker Siddeley Trident. For some reason, CAAC of China bought a bunch of them from the Brits, and used them extensively for domestic and Hong Kong flights in the late 70's to early 80's. Last time I flew on in is probably around 1983-84.

727s--in the 1970s. Both Air Canada and Canadian Pacific flew them.

707s, never.

DC-8s--I flew on a lot of stretched 8s in the late 70s. Air Canada had them on the Montreal-Halifax-St. John's route, and I was living in Newfoundland at the time. Lots of go-arounds on those due to the fog in YYT.

Anselm

I miss the old 727 Stretch. I flew a few in early 90s. They were comfy and capable of making up time.

I never flew the others, before my time.

A. Flew on it many times in the 80's and early 90's.

B. Flew on it in late 60's and early 70's.

C. Can't remember if I ever flew on one.

8-)

I've flown all of those at one time or another. But I am sure a 727 flight has been within the past 10 years of less.

Another pair of great "oldies" are the Convair 880 and the Caravel. Gosh I loved the Caravel...

If you want to fly on a DC-9 or DC-10, you better book in soon on the Northwest Airlines website. They are going fast.

NW's DC-9 are not going anywhere. They will be around for quite a while. The DC-10s are being replaced by the A330s on both the Atlantic and Pacific market. Few D10 routes in the Pacific now.