DAL191 wrote on May 26^th, 2011 at 6:34am:

701151 wrote on May 26th, 2011 at 1:52am: boeing247 wrote on May 26th, 2011 at 1:31am: Peter, as it says in my little side banner - only Boeing planes. Do most commercial pilots only fly planes by a certain company? It depends. My Dad's flown the 737, 727, 767, 757, DC-9, MD-11, DC-3, MD-80 all with Delta, excluding the DC-3. It doesn't matter really. TWA had almost all Boeings, but did in fact have L-1011s and a few other planes. If you were with say, Alaska, all you could have flown in Boeings, unless you were around for the Convair 880. pj747 When you have chance would you ask your dad what his impressions of the MD-11 were and what were the general types of route flown? Thank you Michael Cubine

Well, I ask him later, he's in Paris right now, flying the 767, but I do know that he said it was a nice plane. He flew into Taipei, Hong Kong-Kai Tak, Japan, Mumbai, and quite a lot more out of Los Angeles, and Portland of course. He said it was a bit sketchy in places like Kai Tak (or anywhere else for that matter) because it had a higher approach speed than 747s, L-1011s, 777s, 767s, most anything.