747SP's (Pan Am's and then United's, and Qantas) routinely flew non-stop from SYD to LAX and LAX to AKL and LAX to SYD as I recall. Jose Prize Fan of riding a SP in first class in 1981 on a LAX-AKL and SYD-LAX routing with the back row of coach from AKL to SYD where I sat with a couple from Miami who owned Alabama Jack's on Card Sound Road near Key Largo - they were moving to Perth and sold everything back in Miami In a message dated 8/7/2003 7:56:27 PM Central Daylight Time, filmscape@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: > Subj: Re: SP vs. 400 > Date: 8/7/2003 7:56:27 PM Central Daylight Time > From: <A HREF="mailto:filmscape@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";>filmscape@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</A> > Reply-to: <A HREF="mailto:AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";>AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</A> > To: <A HREF="mailto:AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";>AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</A> > Sent from the Internet > > > > They flew here...I have a foto with both here at the same time. > > Grant McKenzie wrote: > > >I don't think they ever did this due to payload restrictions. With a > >reasonable pax load the 200s and 300s always needed a stop in HNL. It > >wasn't until the 400 was released that anybody could fly the Pacific > non-stop. > > > >As an aside, I know the SP flew SYD-HNL-YVR but I don't recall them flying > >to LAX. Could be wrong, though. > > > >Grant > >SYD > >QF >