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VP-BDQ pictured on finals to Frankfurt Hahn on 21st June. (photo Courtesy of Markus Braun)

June 27th 08;
Been a while since i updated, never seem to have the time.

Aeroflot Cargo have taken delivery on their first 2 MD11's. The first flight was flown from Helsinki to Moscow and return on June 4th and on 15th June services commenced 3 x weekly Frankfurt Hahn to Hong Long via Moscow and Almaty with VP-BDQ. 3 MD11F's should be in service this year.

World Airways have signed contract extensions for MD11 operations with both Sonair and Lufthansa Cargo. Sonair's extensions is for another year (i believe they have an A340 on order) and Lufthansa's for 15 months. The Lufthansa contract is for 3 aircraft operating Europe to the USA.

Gemini Air Cargo have entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy for the second time in 2 years-lets hope they emerge unscathed. Operations are continuing at this time.

Shanghai Cargo have taken delivery on another MD11F from Eva Air. B-16106 is now re-registered as B-2179 and is the fourth MD11 the airline have, all 4 coming from Eva.

35 out of 38 MD11's are in service with UPS now. The remainding 3 aircraft are N801/803/804DE from World Airways and are in the process of freighter conversion at Singpaore. They will become N294/295/296UP.

Varig Log's 2 MD11F's are currently stored after the carrier has cut back most international cargo services. PR-LGD is at Miami and PR-LGE at Sao Paolo.

The 4 Transmile MD11's have seen little use since early April with the company reportedly in financial difficulties and the aircraft parked at thier base in Kuala Lumpur. An EGM was called for 18th June or after the AGM whichever was later but i haven't seen any results posted yet. Hopefully they can resolve any diffulties and keep flying.

9M-TGR seen at Kuala Lumpur SZB on 1st June 08. (Photo courtesy of Kevin Teh).

April 13th;
Eva Cargo's flight to London Heathrow, BR677 is now a booked a B747 for the Summer so no more MD11's to the capital's main airport. However, today 13th April will see the 2 Saudi v.i.p aircaft in. HZ-HM7 arrived last night 12/04 and is due out at 1435 whilst sister HZ-AFAS is due in at 1415. I 've not seen it since its repaint and re-reg so will go up and try and get a picture though our fine British weather will probably put paid to that!

Phoenix models now do a very nice 1;400 scale model of the prototype MD11 N111MD. They also do N311MD in house colours too. They are at; www.phoenix-model.net/revamp2007/index.html. I usually buy my models on ebay. I had a quick look and can't see one at this time but they are available from www.adamjets.com.

April 3rd;
Aeroflots first MD11 still awaits entry in service. Apparenty the Russian DOT prevent airlines using Wwestern equipment older than 15 years. Aeroflot are not happy with this )though one assumes they must of been aware of the fact). They are to take litigation against the DOT to get the matter solved!

N278WA at Houston in early February Photo courtesy of Tim Bryan

March 25th;
Summer 2008 schedules update today. No real surprises, KLM MD11's return to Vancouver and Delhi this Summer and Finnairs only change is Hong Kong going to an A340.

World MD11 N803DE operated its last flight for Air Namibia on the 20/21st March and indeed its last passenger flight. Arriving in London Gatwick from Windhoek on SW385, several hours later it flew out as WOA9200 empty to Taipei,a flight of some 14 hrs, being returned to the lessor before flying to Singapore for freighter conversion. It is to be converted to freighter and will join sister ships from World 801 and 802 with UPS.

Aeroflots second MD11F N702BC (VP-BDQ) is in full colours and curretly at Helsinki prior to delivery. The first, VP-BDP is finnished but not in service yet awaiting approval from the Russian DOT.

February 9th 2008;
First update of the year, have not been much to say for a while. Returned from the USA on Feb 6th to see World MD11 N803DE at Gatwick. It turns out that it was operating for Air Namibia who have agreed a 2 month deal with World operating Windhoek to Gatwick/Frankfurt alongside an A340. Because of alternating schedules, the aircraft in practice should alternate week to week Gatwick to Frankfurt. The 3 MD11's World have from Delta are all due to go to UPS by the Summer 08 with '801' already gone from Worlds fleet.

Taken trough the window of a Delta 767 is World MD11 N803DE at Gatwick on 6th Feb, now devoid of World Airways titles and operating fro Air Namibia. (photo courtesy of Chris Hopkins)

2007 News;

December 28th;
Aeroflots first MD11F has ben painted at Helsinki and registered VP-BDP. The former PPVQF of Varig is due for delivery to its new owner shortly. It had flown to Naples for freighter conversion then up to Helisinki for painting and finalisation work. Click on the link below to see Harri Koskinen's pciture on airliners.net.

picture of VPBDP at Helsinki

A new MD11 book has recently been released, called Northbound Lady by Karl-Peter Ritter. The former Lufthansa Cargo MD11 pilot writes about The north polar flight routings from Europe to Asia, with their remote emergency airports and unique landscape are among the most spectacular airways in the world. This book joins the last big Trijet the McDonnell Douglas MD-11 on her journey via Greenland and the North Polar Sea to the fuel stop in Alaska and further via the Bering Sea to Japan. The layover in Fairbanks gives a fascinating insight into life at 40° below zero and artic aviation with bush pilots and over fifty year old veteran airliners still flying the skies of Alaska.

Northbound Lady - New MD11 book

December 3rd;
World MD11 N276WA departed Bournemouth last night as WOA9005 back to Leipzig after its repairs.

Former Varig MD11 PP-VQG is now registered N725BC and has been ferried from Rio De Janerio to Venice for freighter conversion.

November 30th;
Popped down the road to see N276WA at Bournemouth today, lousy weather, should of gone yesterday. Amyway, 276 is having repair work done after a strutural rib was damaged by impact with a pallet, During repairs, floor ribs were also found to be in need of repair and this is all being done by local firm Beagle Aircraft of Christchurch, just up the road from Bournemouth. Current ETD from BOH/EGHH is Saturday. Hope to get a better pic sometime if the weather improves but if not, then this will have to do. (as well the 2 excellent landing shots from Justin)

November 26th;
World MD11F N276WA visited Bournemouth, UK yesterday, making the first visit of the type to the South Coast airport. Flight WOA 9003 aarrived from Leipzig mid afternoon. Not exactly sure what its there for but some reports say for maintenance and it'll be there for 4-5 days. If thats the case i may be able to go down later in the week and see it go out perhaps. I saw it fly over Southampton on its way in but as i was working was unable to go see it. Luckily a few friends popped down and sent me the following photographs. (Many thanks to Justin Safe for the pics).

November 22nd;
Great news, KLM are set to continue MD11 operations now until 2014/2015! After a small order for more 330/777 and a fleet renewal strategy, the 747 Combi's will be the next to be replaced, so barring another rethink, we've got about 8 more years of passenger MD11 operations!

November 10th;
Former Saudi Arabian Royal flight MD11 HZ-AFA1 cn 48533 has been re-regsitered HZ-AFAS. It has had an extensive refit at Hamburg and will now be operated as a v.i.p transport by the Saudi based ASASCO group

Looking absolutley stunning after its refit, HZ-AFAS is pictured at Hamburg 06/11/07 (picture courtesy of Kai Block)

November 7th;
After going to Taipei in July and being registered as B-16102, B-2176 cn 48415 is back in service with Shanghai Cargo.

October 14th;
Aeroflot Cargo now have 7/8 MD11's due over the next 2 years with the first 2 late this year/early next year. The following MD11's are confirmed for Aeroflot;

N702BC/48504 (PP-VQH), currently at Venice, due 12/07.
N774BC/48502 (PP-VQF), currently at Naples, due 12/07.
OH-LGC/48512, currently with Finnair, due 11/08.
OH-LGD/48513, currently with Finnair, due 07/09.
PP-VQG/48503, currently at Rio, due 2009.
PT-MSH/48755, currently with TAM, due 2009.
PT-MSI/48758, currently with TAM, due 2009.

Ethiopian Airlines MD11F is to come from TAM next year after it finnishes service for the Brazilian airline. PT-MSJ/48769 started life with Vasp, then Varig and now TAM. (Thanks to Patrick Nagy Fuhrer for this info)

KLM are to start a new non stop service to Panama City commencing March 2008 3 times a week with an MD11. Check out the KLM press release below. (Thanks to Richard Paris for this info)

KLM Flight to Panama

October 13th;
After experiencing problems on our flights to Brazil with TAM it would appear they have a had a spot of bother with their MD11's. Nothing serious i believe, but PTMSI which we should of flown out on was stopped from traffic for a few days for minor repairs-a friend flew on it recently and said it only had 1 out of 4 toilets working in Y class-maybe it was stopped to fix them! I was in Sao Paolo waiting to see the Milan flight arrive which was to have been PTMSI again but it got diverted to Rio for technical reasons. The following day we should of seen PTMSJ arrive from Paris but it didn't show and was a 330. Then on the day we flew home, the previous Paris flight to ours was cancelled (A330) and our MD11 PTMSI arrived okay from Milan but returned to Milan vice Paris for some strange reason. It then showed up in Paris the following evening from Milan too. Shame about all the problems because i really enjoyed flying with TAM service was great on board.

On a positive note from Brasil, i saw Varig MD11 PP-VQG in Brasilia having work done on it. (its ben there since a heavy landing August 2006 damaged the centre under carriage and belly) On October 5th it flew to Rio. It is now being converted to a freighter for Aeroflot. I took the pictures below at Brasilia on 28th Sept.

September 3rd;
Fedex have started a MD11 new service to the UK through Manchester, FDX33 routing Memphis-Paris-Manchester-Memphis on Mondays-Thursdays arring 1855. N523FE was on the inaugural flight on 28/08.

September 1st;
Shanghai Cargo Airlines have received thier third MD11F. B-2178 is cn 48543 and is again like the other 2 in the fleet an ex Eva Air machine, B-16102.

August 17th;
Ethiopian Airlines have agreed with Boeing Capital to purchase an MD11F for entry into service early January 2009. The aircraft is an ex passenger machine, i.d unknown at present but as soon as i know i will update the web site with details. Click on the link below for the oficial ethiopian airlines press release.
Many Thanks to Patrick Nagy Fuhrer for this info.

Ethiopain Airlines Press Release

June 3rd;
Aeroflot Cargo will now get 6 MD11's, all ex passenger aircraft. They are 48502/N774BC (PP-VQF) and 48504/PP-VQH from Varig. N774BC is at Naples awaiting conversion. 48755/PT-MSH and 48758/PT-MSI from TAM. 48512/OH-LGC and 48513/PH-LGD from Finnair. The 2 ex Varig a/c should be with Aeroflot by the end of 2007,the 2 ex TAM a/c 09/08-10/08 and the 2 Finnnair machines 12/08 and 08/09.

World Airways has signed contract extensions with both Lufthansa and Air Canada for MD11F operations for the carriers. Click on the links below for the world airways press releases. (Thanks to patrick for this info)

World Airways/Air Canada

World Airways/Lufthansa

May 29th.
Apologies for the long gap in updates, i have moved house, changed isp's and been offline for a lot longer than expected.

Subject to alteration, Varig's final MD11 flight is scheduled for on June 8/9th. The last flight is scheduled to be from Frankfurt on June 8th, RG8741 leaving Europe at 2205. Currently RG8740/8741 GIG-GRU-FRA and vv is operating alternately with an MD11/B767. PP-VTI is the sole remaining MD11. The remainder of the Varig fleet is for UPS or Aeroflot with the possible exception of PP-VQG which has been parked at Brasilia for nearly a year now after a heavy landing damaged the central under carriage and belly.

All 3 of TAM's MD11's are now in service. PT-MSH/I/J operate from Sao Paolo to Paris and Milan.

Finnair have sold its last 2 owned MD11's to Aeroflot. OH-LGC/D will leave the fleet in November 08 and July 09 respectively. Finnairs MD11's will retire from service by the end of 2010 and are being repleaced by Airbus 330's and 340's. Click on the link below for Finnairs press release. (thanks to Patrick for this info)

Finnair Press Release

March 18th;
Alitalia have a revised livery for thier mainline and cargo fleets. MD11 EI-UPI has been painted in the new colours but has had a few minor set backs since its repaint. Prior to its first flight from Milan to JFK, an airport worker crashed into its tail section and damaged a stabiliser. After repair it was ferried to Milan and ground staff there moved ballast from the front to the rear of the aircraft resulting in UPI sitting up on its rear end. It is expected to return to traffic next week.

Pictures showing new Alitalia Cargo livery design then EI-UPI wearing the new colours and sitting on its tail at Milan!

March 17th
Summer services updated on the operators/ passenger page. A few major changes, KLM to San Francisco is a B747 whilst an MD11 will go to Newark, Lima goes B777 non stop, Curacao and St Maarten go MD11 from B747. Vancouver MD11 for the Summer as in previous years and a daily flight to Delhi with an MD. Finnair are dropping Singapore for the Summer and the proposed new route to Kuala Lumpur doesn't start with frequencies increased on other routes instead. Hong Kong non stop for the Summer as in previous years. Varig retain a daily Sao Paolo/Frankfurt flight whilst TAM are to use their MD11's on a new route to Milan starting the end of March as well as the existing Paris flight.

March 10th;
Varig MD11 PP-VTK cn 48540 has finnished its life as a passenger aircraft and been re-registered N288UP and ferried from Rio D.J to Singapore for freighter conversion and a new life with UPS.

February 22nd:

Pictured at Paris CDG on 4th Feb after its inaugeral flight from Sao Paolo is TAM MD11 PT-MSH. (photo courtesy of Didairbus)

February 15th

Apologies no updates for a while, had lots to do at home plus i've been to Miami. Thankfully not a lot to write although TAM's first MD11 has entered service.

PT-MSH (cn 48755/ex PP-VQJ) entered service with TAM on 4th Feb from Sao Paolo to Paris CDG. PT-MSI should join the fleet shortly and PT-MSJ around April. Prices from TAM's web site fro Paris/Sao Paolo round trip came out as £460 GBP, pretty reasonable i thought so i'm saving hard, hope to do it sometime in the Autumn this year.

Aeroflot should recieve 2 MD11's this year, former Varig machines PP-VQF/H. They are also destined to get PT-MSH/J from TAM when their lease finnishes in 2009.

January 14th;
TAM MD11's entry into service has been delayed until mid Febraury after technical difficulties with the aircraft in question. It has meant TAM having to re-organise schedules until 14/02 and using an A320 to fly from Brazil to Miami vice an A330 so the A330 can do the new Paris sector that the MD11 was meant to start!

January 7th;
World MD11's have been busy the last few days. Aer Lingus 'borrowed' N277WA to operate from Boston-Shannon-Dublin yesterday 06/01 on EI 2132 after an A330 went tec. N277WA then returned empty to Atlanta. It is beleived they also used N804DE from World to operate from Shannon to Boston yesteray as well though i am awaiting confirmation on this.
Last nights BWIA flight 900 from Barbados to Heathrow and returning this morning BW 901 to St Lucia and Port of Spain,Trindad is being operated by retro liveried N803DE.

January 2nd;
TAM's MD11 serivces should commence on Friday January 12th from Sao Paolo to Paris six times a week and once a week from Rio DJ. Flight numbers/times are on the operators-routes/timetables-passenger page.

December 17th;
Shanghai Airlines have acquired another MD11F from Eva-N105EV and re-registered it as B-2177.

December 8th;
The 3 MD11's for TAM are confirmed as the following;

PP-VQJ cn 48755 to be PT-MSH
PP-VQK cn 48758 to be PT-MSI
PP-VQX cn 48769 to be PT-MSJ

PP-VQJ/K are ER models. PP-VQX has been stored at Rio since May 2005 so it will be nice to see that back in service next year sometime.

November 26th;
Just been to Aruba with KLM, flying out on PH-KCK and back on PH-KCB, had a very nice week in the sun. PH-KCA/B have been re-configured to 3-3-3 in economy with new seats too. There are panels in the seat backs for ptv's to be installed. All KLM flights to the Netherlands Antilles (AUA/CUR/BON/SXM) should be MD11 operated from November 2007. For Summer 2007, Newark (EWR) will see a KLM MD11 but San Francisco will be B747 operated.

November 15th;
Lufthansa MD11 D-ALCC made a rare visit to Heathrow tonight, having been diverted from East Midlands on flight LH8281.

November 5th;
Varig Log MD11 PR-LGD will make its first visit to Heathrow today, eta is 1350. Talking of Varig, they are operating MD11's to Frankfurt at the moment on long haul flights. PP-VTP has been noticed recently at FRA in service.

November 3rd;
Great news today confirming earlier posting. It was announced today that TAM are to lease 3 MD11's from Boeing Co until the Summer of 2008 as part of the deal which also saw them order 4 B777's. Details of the aircraft invovled in the deal are not yet available but Varig have several MD11's stored in Brazil at this time and it i espected these will be the ones TAM use. No news on routes either that the MD11's will be used on yet but i will keep looking and will post any news as soon as i get it. At least we'll get another new operator flying passenger birds, albeit for a short time. Hope they come to Heathrow!

November 2nd;
Finnairs new service to Delhi commenced Sat 30th October, AY021/22 being operated by OH-LGG. (Thanks to IIkka Mannikainen for this info)

October 29th.
World MD11 N279WA was unvieled in the carriers new livery recently. It is pictured at Brussels hot off the press this morning landing at Brussels on the weekly Air Canada Flight from Toronto. (Many thanks to Robin Bamps for this picture).

October 28th;
Varig Log MD11F PR-LGE is making its first visit to Heathrow today on flight VL9792, eta 1850. The flight has been a DC10 every week so far.

October 23rd;
During Finnairs industrial action on Friday 20th MD11 OH-LGD operated Helsinki-Barcelona and rtn AY905/906.

Ethiopians MD11F to be leased during the winter will be from Gemini Cargo. See below for more details. (October 7th post).

October 20th;
No Finnair long haul flights again today. I went to Heathrow this morning to see MD11 OH-LGE operating the morning Finnair flight Helsinki - Heathrow and rtn AY831/832. It departed at 1158 around 90minutes late.
Also, OH-LGB operated a Helsinki-Brussles-Paris CDG-Helsinki today as AY4871/4872. It is pictured below arriving at Brussels in what is believed to be the first visit of a Finnair MD11. As can be seen, LGB has Santa Claus stickers applied for the forthcoming festive season. (Thanks to Robin Bamps for the info and picture)

October 19th;
Popped into Heathrow this morning in time to see OH-LGG land at 0948 on AY4831 from Helsinki-pity its a one off, it'll be lovely to see them in here regularly!

October 19th;
Finnair cabin staff are on strike today from 0400 Finish time. No long haul flights will operate though some European flights will. An MD11 will operate Helsinki to London Heathrow today at 0800 on flight AY8431 and return at 1010 on AY8432 via Paris. The last Finnair MD11 to visit Heathrow was OH-LGB in 1997. There were a little more common in the early nineties though. OH-LGC has visited London Gatwick this year on a charter.

October 18th;

Reports on airliners.net say TAM are to lease 2 MD11's from Varig. I am trying to confirm this at this stage. Hopefully its true and they will fly in TAM colours.

October 7th;
Ethiopian Airlines are to lease an MD11F for cargo flights from January to May 2007 operating Addis Abbab to Brussels. Not sure at this stage where the aircraft will be leased from-maybe World after their recent passenger lease? Watch this space.

October 6th;
2 video clips recently sent to me featuring MD11's are well worth a look. The first from Stefan Lorenz is made up of clips from flight simulators and is very well put together. Clicking on the link will download a file which will then require winzip to open and then a windows media player to view.

Stefan's flight sim clips.

The second clip is done with KLM MD11's and has cockpit views on a flight from Bonaire to Lima and rtn and another Bonaire-Quito-Guayaquil-Bonaire. It is done to music (like the first clip), plays as a windows media player clip and is again very well put together by Maurits Dijksterhuis.

KLM MD11 clips

Pictured at Washington's Dulles airport on July 3rd is World MD11 N801DE operating for Ethiopian Airlines. (Photo courtesy of Omar Sherbini)

September 18th;
World Airways have signed a deal with Lufthansa to operate 2 MD11 freighters between Europe and the USA commencing October 2006. Click on the link below for the World Airways press release.

World Airways/Lufthansa Deal.

September 4th;
Air Namibia's sole remaining MD11 V5-NMD was retired from service on August 24th and the airline have leased a B747 until their next A340 arrives later this year. The MD11 flew to back to its old base at Zurich and will shortly be converted to a freighter and join UPS as N286UP.

September 3rd;
Finnair are shuffling around thier long haul services in the Winter timetable due to planned MD11 maintenance. Currently their sole A340 operates to Shanghai. From 29 October till 2nd December the A340 will operate the Osaka and Nagoya flights vice MD11 and from 2nd December the A340 will revert back to the Shanghai route.
From June 2007 after the arrival of 2 new A340's, Beijing and Delhi will be operated by the new aircraft. Bangkok will be have 13 flights a week from May 2007, all MD11 operated with 4 flights continuing to Singapore and 3 onto the new destiantion of Kuala Lumpur. Hong Kong flights will revert to non stop operations for the Summer period instead if via Bangkok. Thanks to Ikka Mannikainen for this info.


KLM are to revise their services to the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba with all services from the Summer 2007 time table MD11 operated, including St Maarten! As mentioned earlier, the MD11's are to be refurbished throughout wih new seating in business and economy. Click on the link below for KLM's press release.

KLM Press release

August 10th;
Another KLM MD11 visited Heathrow today, PH-KCF on KL1007/008. I gather this was in relation to the flight chaos caused by terrorist threats and to help shift some of the back log. Thats 2 MD11's to Heathrow in a week now-shame i wasn't around to see either of them!

August 3rd;
KLM MD11 PH-KCG operated KL1019/1020 Amsterdam-Heathrow and vv today-still quite rare to see them on that route or in the UK at all.

July 31st;
Aeroflot are to acquire 8 MD11 freighters now, leased from Boeing Capital. Originally they wanted 6 and gpt 4 from Varig (PP-VQF/H/J/K). Not sure of the i.d of the other 4 but with Varig in financial difficulty it could be more of theirs. The link below is a press story of the deal. Thanks to Bas for sending me that.

Boeing Press release/Aeroflot deal

July 26th;
Varig have been taken over by Varig Log. They continue to operate a limited service with 13 aircraft operating 5 domestic and 5 international routes. MD11's PP-VTI/K/P are the only 3 currently in service with several others parked up. They hope to expand to something like the 'old' airline within 6 months but wether MD11's are involved in future plans time will tell-i fear not though as most are leased in and when the lease expires are destined for UPS.

July 20th.
Not much in the way of updates lately as i've been travelling around the US and Canada for 2 weeks. I have added a page about our trip to Anchorage and some pictures.

News on the MD11 front i have is N801DE has entered service for Ethiopian on its lease from World Airways on the Addis Abbaba/Washington route.

Varig have grounded most of its fleet as bankruptcy moves ever closer. A court decision is expected next Tuesday 25th July. Varig Log had put in a takeover bid but it was not enough to satisfy the creditors. Hopefully they can sort out things over the next few days and keep flying.

Air Namibia's sole remaining MD11 V5-NMD is expected to remain with the carrier until November now instead of the end of this month before it is replaced with an A340.

June 21st;
Ethiopan Airways are to lease World MD11 N801DE from 20/06 until 31/08 2006 to meet capacity demands. The aircraft will retain its current livery (shame) and is leased on an ACMI basis. Not sure at this stage where it is to be used.

The 3 former Delta MD11's leased to World Airways (801/803/804DE) have had their leases extended until March 2008. (thanks to Per Søtvik for this info (World Airways press release at http://www.worldair.com/news/20060412.html))

Finnair MD11's OH-LGB/F have had Moomins characters painted on each side for the Summer season and will be used mainly on flights to Japan where the Moomins are very popular.

On the subject of Finnair, the carrier recieved its first A340 this week, a former Virgin Atlantic aircraft. It will be used initially on domestic flights but will operate AY057/58 to/from Shanghai from sometime in July.

June 4th 2006;
Been a few weeks since i've been able to update with being rather busy at work. First off:

Todays JM001/002 Jamaica/Heathrow vv was operated by World MD11 N803DE.
Varig MD11 PP-VTH operated its last service on 25/05 from Madrid to Sao Paolo and is now destined for UPS.
I-DUPU is in service ( has been for a few months) with Alitalia Cargo and will retain its Italian reg unlike the other 4 MD11's which are caryyng Irish EI- markings.
Finnairs new flight to Nagoya got underway yesterday 03/06. AY079/080 operates 3 times a week.

May 9th 2006;
Former Thai MD11 HS-TMG has been re-registered to N257UP in line with its new life as freighter. Not sure at this time where it is going for conversion but beleived to be in the USA somewhere.
Former Delta and World MD11 N801DE is now registered to UPS as well and will await freighter conversion.

17th April 2006.
KLM MD11 PH-KCA visited London Heathrow today on KL1019 from Amsterdam. Quiet a rare occurance this although i have actually flown to Heathrow on KCA after it was diverted due to a technical fault on the way to Amsterdam from Miami. I can't recall the last time one operated a scheduled service from Amsterdam though. I guess this was due to the Bank Holiday today.

April 11th 2006.
UPS have acquired 6 more MD11's-The 4 ex Thai aircraft and 2 from World (803DE and 804DE).
Aeroflot have acquired 4 MD11's leased from Boeing. All 4 are Varig machines (and before that Garuda).
Finnair are to fly to Kuala Lumpur from May 2007 3 times a week. Summer schedules will be updated shortly for all airlines.

March 29th 2006;
The 4 Thai MD11's have been sold to the ALG (Aviation Leasing Group) of Kansas, USA for a total of $136 million. So we're still really in the dark about their future! I'm still going for Aeroflot though! Pity i never won the Euromillions Lottery last year when it rolled over- i could of afforded 2 of them i think!

February 19th 2006.
With a great deal of help from Jan-Erik of the MD80 International Forum we have set up an MD11 forum through the MD80 Forum web site, moderated by myself. It is still in its infancy and with me being on night shift for the next few weeks there won't be an awful done to it but please check it out and add anything you wish to discuss/mention. You will have to register to use it but will have access to the excellent MD80 forum as well. Please follow the link below. Many Thanks to Jan-Erik for
his work in setting this up.

MD11 Forum