In a message dated 8/2/2003 4:50:13 AM Pacific Daylight Time, jmgammon@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes: << Taken out of fleet in July 1992. >> Merci, Jean-Michel. Why did they buy them in the first place? They did not do anything that required the SP, and there were other used 747s on the market by then that would have worked better. Another thing. If AA is this great airline, how come they never picked up the 744 to do big traffic?