The Queen Of The Skies Is Leaving That Paradise...

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines flew the Boeing 747-400 to Princess Juliana International Airport, Sint Maarten since the 1990s. The Boeing 747-400 of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is known as the largest aircraft to fly to that airport on a tropical island. The Princess Juliana International Airport is known as its "low landing approach" over Maho Beach. When you visit the Maho Beach, an aircraft that going to land on Princess Juliana International Airport's runway will be only some feet over your head! KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has a program on its YouTube channel named "KLM Cockpit Tales." One of its episodes is "Big Plane, Short Runway" is talking about how to land a Boeing 747-400 on a short runway like the one that Sint Maarten has. For plane spotters, Princess Juliana International Airport is a paradise...

The last Boeing 747 landing on Princess Juliana International Airport’s runway

But, the Queen of the Skies’ story on Sint Maarten’s runway will come to the end...

On October 30, 2016, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines operated the last ever Boeing 747 flight to Sint Maarten. The flight was landed at Sint Maarten as flight KL785 before it leaves for Curacao with the same flight number. The replacement aircraft for the Sint Maarten route is the smaller Airbus A330-200 with only 243 seats instead of 408 seats like on the Boeing 747-400. KLM Considered the Airbus A330-200 is more efficient than the Boeing 747-400. With the Boeing 747 gone from Sint Maarten, there is no more chance for plane spotters to spot this jumbo again at Sint Maarten. But, hopefully, the queen of the skies will return to Sint Maarten, so people on the beach could hear the amazing sound of the four jet engines of the Boeing 747, for a longer time.

The MH370 Search Will Come To The End

9M-MRO, the missing plane at Paine Field on June 5, 2002, one month after its first flight

The search for 9M-MRO, a Boeing 777-200ER that missing on the way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing as Malaysia Airlines flight 370 will be suspended as 110,000 kilometers squares of 120,000 kilometers squares had been covered. The search will be suspended, but will not be ended. The investigators still have yet to find the missing aircraft after two years of the MH370's disappearance. Malaysia Airlines flight 370 vanished from radar screen on March 8, 2014. The satellite data shows if the plane was still flying heading to the south towards the Southern Indian Ocean and believed to run out of fuel and crashed.

The Turkish Airlines Airbus A340-300 Is Flying Into Retirement

TC-JII, Turkish Airlines’ youngest Airbus A340-300

Turkish Airlines is the national airline of Turkey. Turkish Airlines received the first Airbus A340-300 in its fleet, TC-JDJ (nose name: Istanbul) on July 22, 1993. The airline had nine orders of the aircraft type at the time, the ninth and also the last Airbus A340-300 to be delivered to Turkish Airlines is TC-JII, it was delivered to Turkish Airlines on April 21, 2000. The Airbus A340-300s are operating Turkish Airlines' flights between Asia and Europe. Now, the airline has four Airbus A340-300 remain in service. The another five aircraft had been stored, sold to the other operators, or being scrapped. The Turkish Airlines' Airbus A340-300 average age is 18,2 years old. Turkish Airlines also announced the last passenger flight of its Airbus A340-300 that would be held on tomorrow, June 17, 2016, and the flight would be commenced between Istanbul and Medina. Goodbye Turkish Airlines Airbus A340-300!