Twa902fly From United States, joined Dec 1999, 2725 posts, RR: 2 Posted (6 years 5 months 2 weeks 5 days 11 hours ago) and read 610 times:
I just came back from O'hare picking up my dad, and I saw at the very end of Terminal 5 (International Terminal) was parked at Northwest Airlines DC-10. Now my first guess is it is a charter, but ORD already gets Apple Vacations, Funjet, ATA charters... so i don't know.
Anyone know what it was doing at ORD? At the international terminal? Maybe a substitute for a KLM 747-300 AMS-ORD?
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Pilottim747 From United States, joined Jul 2001, 1603 posts, RR: 4 Reply 2, posted (6 years 5 months 2 weeks 5 days 11 hours ago) and read 513 times:
I doubt it was a charter because NWA or MLT Vacations (the charter company they own and sometimes fly for) doesn't use ORD. However, I couldn't verify any other use for the aircraft.
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Twa902fly From United States, joined Dec 1999, 2725 posts, RR: 2 Reply 4, posted (6 years 5 months 2 weeks 5 days 10 hours ago) and read 485 times:
Funjet is the company that sells the ATA charter flights from ORD, but I think some other companies sell ATA charters as well. Funjet/ATA had a ticket counter in terminal 5 but i do not know if that still exists.
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Twa902fly From United States, joined Dec 1999, 2725 posts, RR: 2 Reply 6, posted (6 years 5 months 2 weeks 5 days 10 hours ago) and read 462 times:
Mah4546... why would it be at the international terminal then? NW has it's own gates at ORD, and they are good enough for a DC-10. NW parked 747s there when they flew to ORD.
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Big777jet From , joined today!, posts, RR: Reply 8, posted (6 years 5 months 2 weeks 5 days 2 hours ago) and read 410 times:
Here it is I found the flight tracker PHL-ORD. Northwest flight number was 9976 arrived ORD at 2:43pm Friday afternoon it's a DC10. That's Eagles football teams flew on it.
Twa902fly From United States, joined Dec 1999, 2725 posts, RR: 2 Reply 9, posted (6 years 5 months 2 weeks 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 390 times:
So I guess they used the international terminal domestically somehow, just like Spirit does. They somehow get around sending passengers through customs. Sun Country used the international terminal for flights to MSP as well.
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Bobnwa From United States, joined Dec 2000, 3685 posts, RR: 5 Reply 10, posted (6 years 5 months 2 weeks 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 377 times:
Virtually every weekend someone ask what is that Northwest aircraft (DC-10, 757,747)doing at their airport. Almost always it is an NFL charter.
The NFL teams do not want to use the regular terminal because it would be too much of a mob scene. The aircraft is almost always parked at a remote location. The team arrives by bus and goes right onboard the aircraft
CcrlR From United States, joined Aug 2001, 2147 posts, RR: 1 Reply 11, posted (6 years 5 months 2 weeks 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 368 times:
If you all are saying that it was for the Philadelphia Eagles it's not. Mostly all sports team's planes are at Midway if they can be able to land and take off too.
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LOT767-300ER From Poland, joined Jan 2001, 7998 posts, RR: 26 Reply 17, posted (6 years 5 months 2 weeks 4 days 17 hours ago) and read 285 times:
Twa902fly
>>Bobnwa- this aircraft was parked at the last gate at Terminal 5, a gate that is almost never used, but not at a remote location like you said. <<
Twa that gate is used daily man, SAS uses it for their 767 that comes daily, on the other side Spirit uses the other gate for the MD-80s and DC-9s. That is NOT a remote gate by no means, all of those gates by T-5 are used.
Twa902fly From United States, joined Dec 1999, 2725 posts, RR: 2 Reply 18, posted (6 years 5 months 2 weeks 4 days 17 hours ago) and read 279 times:
I know it IS used, but still rarely. I never said it was remote. But theres like one hour a day when all T5 gates at ORD are full. Thats when all the euro-flights arrive. The SAS flight you mentioned, they have two to ORD. One is before the other European flights, and the other one to Copenhagen doesn't leave until 10PM. It is the last flight to Europe out of Terminal 5.
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Favre From United States, joined Apr 2000, 574 posts, RR: 8 Reply 19, posted (6 years 5 months 2 weeks 4 days 16 hours ago) and read 268 times:
for the last time-----------a/c 1157 dc-10-40 was in ord for the eagles...it left this morning and flew to green bay for the packers trip to stl--then returned to ord to fly back the eagles tonight----
Mls515 From United States, joined Jun 2000, 3017 posts, RR: 5 Reply 21, posted (6 years 5 months 2 weeks 4 days 15 hours ago) and read 256 times:
I saw a NW DC-10 at ORD on Monday, January 7th. I was wondering what it was doing there. Charter for the Jaguars? Leaving a day after the game?
Better than seeing it, I also got a picture of it:
I'm not up to date on the schedules and such so I didn't know for sure it was out of place. I was wondering why nothing made sense on the NW arrivals/departures boards.
(Yep, went over to that spot again Mark. Too bad it's pretty much just a quiet place for employees to take their brakes now. You can get there from UA Terminal 1 without leaving the secure area.)
Twa902fly From United States, joined Dec 1999, 2725 posts, RR: 2 Reply 22, posted (6 years 5 months 2 weeks 4 days 14 hours ago) and read 238 times:
Mike I was just gonna say... coolest place in ORD. I came back from PUJ on January 6th... at 4AM. You didn't see a Air 2000 Boeing 757-200 there did you? Apple Vacations leased G-OOBB and is flying it ORD-PUJ-ORD. I've been on that if you saw it.
PUJ is Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.
Yeah the end of L is deserted now. The gate on the right tip, the side thats across from the AA gates is the Comair gate now, and the other side is usually a 757 to ATL. The rest of the L gates are ex-TWA flights, L1/L3 is Apple and the first two are ex-TWA AA flights to STL.
The other L's are all Delta to SLC CVG ATL
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