What types of jet airliners have you flown on?

In My Humble Opinion
1

Just curious. Me, I’ve been flying since I was an infant of the 60’s, so I have a lot of the old timers like the 707 and DC-8.

Poll is public.

2

I haven’t seen the poll yet but I’ll pre-empt it by saying “you missed out RAF Nimrod” which was my first flight, to Washington DC in 1972.

3

It was a big pretty white plane with red stripes, curtains in the windows and wheels and it looked like a big Tylenol.

I have no idea. I would assume I’ve been on a 707 but other than that, not a clue.

4

You can vote for the Comet then, since the Nimrod and the Comet are essentially the same aircraft (tho the Nimrod is a maritime recon plane not an airliner).

5

Some common airliners not in the list:
A319
A321 (both far more numerous than the rare A318)
A330
MD-11
A310

Probably better to say “A320 family”, because the family as a whole is roughly equivalent to the Boeing 737 series.

I’ll also be interested to see if anyone will claim to have flown in an A350…

6

Good stuff. This one was kitted out with a few seats for my family, and a hammock for my baby brother, but it was definitely a Nimrod.

BTW that vote for Concorde wasn’t a troll - that was me. :smug:

ETA: also I flew from London - Leningrad and back from Moscow with Aeroflot in 1984. Wasn’t sure what plane that would have been so left it blank.

7

Also missing are:

ATR 42 and 72
CRJ (multiple variants)
BAe 146
de Havilland Canada Dash 7 and Bombardier Dash 8
Fokker 27, 28, and 100
Convair 880 and 990
And then I could start listing obscure ones. BAC-111, Hawker Siddeley Trident, VC-10, Caravelle, VFW 614,…

8

A319
A321
B757
B747
DC-9
MD-88
E175

edited to undo the all-caps filter

9

Jerk :wink: I always planned to take my child on one for their 10th birthday. Wife gets pregnant…and that’s when they discontinue the Concorde service.

I’m surprised that, so far, there are as many votes for 707 as for DC-9 and variants. It was hard to avoid DC-9’s and their successors for short flights in the US from the late 70s through the late 90s (when Embraer and Canadair started to take over some of this job), whereas 707s, unless I am mistaken, were all but done by the early 80s.

10

John DiFool: Specifically, Nimrods were made from a Comet 4 airframe.

Myself: DC9-30 thru MD95; DC10, L1011, 727(-100 and -200), 737(every version but -100), 757, 767, A300, A318, A320(and 319), Embraers (*see note below), Others

  • Note: Both Embraer ERJ (135, 140, 145) and Embraer EJet (170, 175, 190); IMO if the A318 is a separate type these are way even more so.

I agree with Ximenean the A318 thru A321 family should be a single type just as the DC9/MD80-thru-95. MD-11 would then go into a family with the DC-10.

My “others”:

Cessna 402C Utiliner
Saab 340
DeHavilland-Canada DHC-6(Twin Otter)
DHC-8 (currently sold as Bombardier Q400)
ATR-72
Canadair/Bombardier CRJ-200, -700
Bucket list: DC-3, 747

11

DC-9 (Ugh)
DC-10
B727-767
A 320

12

aw, c’mon. Who doesn’t like sitting in the last four rows of a DC-9?

I said, WHO DOESN’T LIKE SITTING IN THE LAST FOUR ROWS OF A DC-9?

13

The usual Boeings (737,747,757,767 and 777), Airbus A320s a couple of times, a SAAB turboprop puddle-jumper once, McDonnell Douglas DC-9/MD80/MD90 (all 3, I believe), Embraer RJ145s a few times and a BAE 146 once from Aberdeen to London Gatwick.

14

Pardon?

15

Probably a good job really. The Air France Concorde I flew in, both pilots that I met when I went into the cockpit, and the cabin crew - because the flights were so short they were never switched to different shifts, they were always on the same plane and happy to be on it - were all dead a year later.

16

Thanks, that makes me feel a little better. But still, would have been fun.

17

I’ve been on many Airbus 319s. I’ve never even heard of the 318.

From what I can remember:

727
737
757
767
777
A319
A320
A321
A330
A340
Embraer somethingorother
CRJs of every type
Dash-8
Fokker F28
BAE 146
MD-88, which looked like it was held together with masking tape

18

WHAT?

19

Hey, I’m the only one so far that’s flown on both a Tupolev and an Illyushin. I’ve flown on all of the Boeing series except for the Dreamliner. Also the Lockheeds and the Douglas DC series and couple of the Airbus models. The only one I remember being at all comfortable in cattle class was the Boeing 777 on a flight from Paris to NYC. Most hated: Boeing 757.

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Others not listed I’ve flown on, even remembering this is jet airliners only:
Airbus A330
Canadair/Bombardier Regional Jet (several models)
Sud-Aviation Caravelle