Operators-Passenger

page updated 25/03/08

Summer 2008 services commence Sunday 30th March.

World MD11 N278WA operates for Sonair, seen at Atlanta 09/08/2002. (Photo courtesy of Gregg Stansbery)

Passenger operators are unfortuneatly dwindling nowadays with just Finnair, KLM and TAM and the latter only until Summer 2008. Finnair and KLM have a few more years left yet. World operate a lot of ad hoc charters and military charters as well as providing an aircraft for Sonair for the Houston-Luanda/Malabo oil flights.

Flight schedules shown use the 3 letter airport codes. After the flight number are days of operation ; 1 = Mondays, 2 = Tuesdays and so on., DX7 = Operates daily except Sundays.

Finnair currently operate 7 MD11's from its Helsinki hub on flights to New York and the far East. There are now 3 A340's in the fleet to avoid and for Summer 2008 A340's operate to NGO, NRT, YYZ, BOM and HKG. The first MD11's should leave the fleet this Summer so over the next year or 2 services will gradually reduce. The only change i can find for Summer 2008 services is the Hong Kong flight going to an A340, all other flights operate as per Winter schedules!

OH-LGA cn 48449 , OH-LGE cn 48780
OH-LGB cn 48450 , OH-LGF cn 48766
OH-LGC cn 48512 , OH-LGG cn 48753
OH-LGD cn 48513

Summer 08 MD11 flights i can find with Finnair. Beijing, Osaka and Shangahi see daily MD11's.

AY005 1420 HEL-JFK DX7 (Daily from 27/04)
AY006 1745 JFK-HEL DX7 (Daily from 27/04)
AY021 1415 HEL-DEL DAILY
AY022 0100 DEL-HEL DAILY
AY051 2010 HEL-PEK DAILY
AY052 1055 PEK-HEL DAILY
AY057 1710 HEL-PVG DAILY
AY058 1000 PVG-HEL DAILY
AY077 2020 HEL-KIX DAILY
AY078 1400 KIX-HEL DAILY
AY087 1655 HEL-CAN 1467
AY088 0945 CAN-HEL 1257
A7095 2010 HEL-BKK DAILY
AY096 1150 BKK-HEL DAILY

Finnairs web site

KLM operates 10 MD11's from its Amsterdam hub to destinations in Africa and North/South America.

PH-KCA cn 48555 , PH-KCF cn 48560
PH-KCB cn 48556 , PH-KCG cn 48561
PH-KCC cn 48557 , PH-KCH cn 48562
PH-KCD cn 48558 , PH-KCI cn 48563
PH-KCE cn 48559 , PH-KCK cn 48564

MD11's return to Vancouver and Delhi for the Summer. San Francisco is a B747-first for a while i think this winter. These are the Summer 08 KLM MD11 operated flights i can find.

KL569 1020 AMS-DAR 5 (via JRO) until 30/05 only.
KL569 2250 DAR-AMS 5
KL671 1520 AMS-YUL DAILY (Montreal)
KL672 1825 YUL-AMS DAILY
KL681 1540 AMS-YVR DAILY
KL682 1850 YVR-AMS DAILY
KL733 1550 AMS-AUA 4
KL734 2125 AUA-AMS 4
KL735 1200 AMS-CUR DAILY (Curacao)
KL736 1730 CUR-AMS DAILY
KL753 2335 AMS-UIO DX2 (via BON,GYE)(Quito)
KL754 0915 UIO-AMS DX3 (via BON)
KL765 1435 AMS-AUA 57 via SXM (Aruba)
KL765 2125 AUA-AMS 57
KL769 1435 AMS-AUA 2 via BON (Aruba)
KL769 2125 AUA-AMS 2
KL871 1105 AMS-DEL DAILY
KL872 0050 DEL-AMS
KL873 1245 AMS-HYD 12356 (Hyderabad)
KL874 0300 HYD-AMS 23467

KLM's web site

Sonair is a subsidiary of Sonangol, the national petroleum company of Angola and was set up in 1998 to provide flights and support for oil workers. They use an aircraft operate by World Airways since November 2000 and are still doing so. The MD11 flies 3 times a week between Houston and Africa on what is known as the "Houston Express". The flights operate for oil workers in Angola and for the USAEA-US Africa Energy Association. The MD11 leased wears joint Sonair and World titles.

N278WA cn 48746 (MD11ER)

WOA100 HOU-LAD 1200/0730 13 (Luanda)
WOA101 LAD-HOU 2230/0800 24 (Houston)
WOA102 HOU-SSG 1200/0715 5 (Malabo)
WOA103 SSG-HOU 2130/0530 6

Check out Sonairs web site for more info;

Sonair's web site

TAM have acquired 3 former Varig MD11's in a deal with Boeing Co that saw them order 3 B777's at the same time. The MD11's are to be leased for around 18 months, supplementing the A330 fleet and to help with the airlines expansion plans until the delivery of the B777's in the summer of 2008. The first 2 aircraft joined the fleet early in 2007 with the final a/c in March 2007.

PT-MSH cn 48755 (ex PP-VQJ MD11ER)
PT-MSI cn 48758 (ex PP-VQK MD11ER)
PT-MSJ cn 48769 (ex PP-VQX)

MD11 services commenced on 4th Feb 07 from Sao Paolo to Paris. The Milan flight started a month later.

JJ8060 1900 GRU-MXP DAILY
JJ8061 1330 MXP-GRU DAILY
JJ8096 2300 GRU-CDG DAILY
JJ8097 2300 CDG-GRU DAILY

Both flights are shown MD11's on TAM's web site for the whole of the Summer time table (until October 08). The first B777 is due in July so things could change.

TAM's web site

World Airways operate a fleet of 14 MD11's, 6 of which are freighters. They are based in Atlanta, GA. Their aircraft are often leased out short or long term to other airlines. Air Canada and Eva are currently using MD11F's from World whilst in the past, airlines such as Aer Lingus, Monarch and Malaysian have all leased World MD11's. BWIA frequently used a World MD11 in 2005 on its flights from Trinidad to London whilst Air Jamaica were using one in March 2006. World also operate a lot of flights on behalf on the US military as well as operating 3 x weekly flights from Houston to Luanda and Malabo on behalf of Sonair for workers in the oil industry. They recently increased thier MD11 fleet with the acquisition of 3 former Delta aircraft although these are to go to UPS shorlty. N801DE was leased to Ethiopean Airlines until August 2006 and operating Addis Abbaba to Washington.

N271WA (MD11P) cn 48518 , N278WA (MD11ERP) cn 48746
N272WA (MD11P) cn 48437 , N279WA (MD11F) cn 48756
N273WA (MD11P) cn 48519 , N380WA (MD11F) cn 48407
N274WA (MD11F) cn 48633 , N381WA (MD11F) cn 48523
N275WA (MD11F) cn 48631 , N801DE (MD11P) cn 48472
N276WA (MD11F) cn 48632 , N803DE (MD11P) cn 48474
N277WA (MD11ERP) cn 48743 , N804DE (MD11P) cn 48475

World Airways web site