If I remember correctly, they needed them to do JFK-NRT non-stop which was not possible otherwise at the time and they were probably relatively cheap, even then. Antoin Daltun ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alireza Alivandivafa" <DEmocrat2n@xxxxxxx> To: <AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: 04 August 2003 08:21 Subject: Re: AA SPs > 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? >