Commercial airlines try to keep aircraft in the air for their revenue, however, most of the 747 are use in long haul or international flights. if we use average of 8 hrs flight time with 8 hrs of average stop time and 4 hrs of schedule downtime. it is 20 hrs per flight cycle . Let's estimate 1 yr operation days are 300 day x24hrs/day = 7200hrs/20hrs per cycle = 360 flight cycle x 8 hrs flight time/cycle = 2880hrs a year of annual flight hours.
The 747 and A380 both have a flight engineer on board as well as a flight supervisor who has an office behind the cockpit.
The Boeing 747 has both freighters and passenger variants.
The 747 made it's first flight on Feb. 9, 1969.
There are approximately 747 miles from North Carolina to the Bahamas. The estimated flight time is 2 hours and 7 minutes.
Our flight to Majorca was on a Boeing 747.
The flight time taken from UK to Sydney is between 21-22 hours.
The 747's maiden flight was on February 9th, 1969.
The first airline to use the Boeing 747 was Pan-Am airlines on January 21, 1970. The flight was an international, oversea flight from New York to London.
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The Boeing 747 was Introduced on January 22, 1970 with Pan Am and the first flight was on February 9, 1969
You can not fly from New York directly to Fiji. You will need to take a flight to Los Angeles (roughly 6 hours), and then switch to a second flight from LAX to Nadi (11 hours). Depending on how long your layover is the journey should take around 20 hours.