747s are not allowed to use the second runway at NRT. Upto and including 777 is the max for landing (I think but not certain that 777s can only use it for take offs for relatively short range sectors). There is one farmer holding out, preventing the rw being extended. Cheers Alastair At 14:00 14/01/04 -0500, you wrote: ><<The reason for NW A320/757 at NRT was that the airline was able to get >slots on NRT's new second runway, which is too short to handle large >aircraft. So I don't see the 757s getting replaced with 742s.>> > >Interesting, but considering the short routes they fly with the 320s and 752s, I am thinking the 742s could probably make the flight. How long is the runway? > > *************************************** Dr. Alastair T. Gardiner Microbial Photosynthesis Lab 217 Davidson Building IBLS-Division of Biochemistry & Mol. Biol. University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QQ Scotland Tel. (+44) 141 330 6449 Fax. (+44) 141 330 4620 E-mail. atg3v@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.gla.ac.uk/ibls/BMB/rjc/agardiner.html ************************************** Personal web pages at http://www.geocities.com/atg3v Have a look at my airliner photography at http://airliners.net/search/photo.search?emailsearch=atg3v@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx