Can't find Czech Airlines

[Speedbird1]

I attempted searching here for info on Czech Airlines but nothing appears. Czech evidently stopped flying from Prague to JFK. When did this service terminate? I recall when the flight was an IL 62 with the high tail and had in large lettering "OK". At one point, the service came from Montreal before arriving here at JFK. Later on, they added direct service to JFK.

[T-Bird76]

I attempted searching here for info on Czech Airlines but nothing appears. Czech evidently stopped flying from Prague to JFK. When did this service terminate? I recall when the flight was an IL 62 with the high tail and had in large lettering "OK". At one point, the service came from Montreal before arriving here at JFK. Later on, they added direct service to JFK.


Use the search feature...this was discussed in the past............

[SengaB]

23-Oct-2009 A310 John F Kennedy Intl (KJFK) Ruzyn_ Int'l (LKPR / PRG)

They left quietly. Their initial pull out date was around 1.5 years ago or so something. Its too bad as CSA was JFK's last PAX scheduled A310 service.
Senga

[Speedbird1]

The search feature here did not help so I used Google. The last flight, CSA 50 came to JFK on Oct. 23, 2009. I tried searching using Czech Airlines as well as Czecholosvak Airlines but no luck using the search on this site.

[SengaB]

That's when it terminated :)
23-Oct-2009 A310 John F Kennedy Intl (KJFK) Ruzyn_ Int'l (LKPR / PRG)
That was the last flight
Senga

[Mayi757]

That's interesting, I wonder between what years CSA used the IL-62 to JFK. Maybe it's in the search function, but I still feel like asking the question. at risk of condemnation from the "high priests" here :mrgreen:

Come to think of it, LOT is the only airline left from the former eastern bloc at JFK.

Did Balkan ever serve JFK?

[Ari707]

Balkan did serve JFK, Did InterFlug?

[Mayi757]

Balkan did serve JFK, Did InterFlug?

No, only route to the Americas was Havana. Are you sure about Balkan? They had no IL-62s to do the route. Only long haul ac they ever had was 767-200 for a time in the 90's. Maybe then?

[Tom_Turner]

Mario - I believe you are correct. Balkan was sometime in 80s or 90s to JFK. Never saw them myself.

IL-62s to JFK in roughly the early 70s were Aeroflot, LOT, Czecholosvak (OK-Jet) and Tarom. JAT had 707s.

Later Ukraine with IL-62 up to about 2000.

Either Interflug or Sudflug brought a 4 engine prop into JKF sometime in '68 or '69, but I could not tell which as I could only make out "flug" or the exact aircraft type as it was just after dark. But that was a one-off flight for whatever reason.

Yes, Tarom, JAT, Czech all gone from JFK.

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[Ari707]

I also remember JAT's DC-10's, don't forget Malev

[Mayi757]

I never saw any of those in person, (might have seen Interflug as a kid, not sure) but the IL-62 from Air Ukraine in that yellow/blue was especially beautiful.

Tom, there was also a short lease from Guyana Airways of an IL-62 (full colors!). I think it was leased from Aeroflot can't remember but either way I'm sure it had to have been used to JFK. Seeing all those pax IL-62s and 707s at JFK today would be PLANE HEAVEN. Dang I wish I was older.

[ISP Pilot]

I also remember JAT's DC-10's, don't forget Malev
Up until recently, Malev was flying the 767-200 to AA's T8. I remember miss seeing them when flying AA.

[moose135]

I also remember JAT's DC-10's


http://www.moose135photography.com/Airplanes/Airliners-and-Airport-Spotting/Old-Airliner-Photos/JM198103YU-AMADC-10JFK001/141730892_jR7UL-L-2.jpg

[Mayi757]

Great subject there Moose.

Long time socialist flag airlines are all gone from JFK except LOT. Balkan doesn't exist anymore and JAT became a small and insignificant airline reflected by unmarked 737s and the few with any markings have a silly 3-dots livery It's a whole different, boring era now.

[SengaB]

Nice shots John and thanks for tormenting me :)

The JAT DC-10 came into JFK in 2002 for the UNGA flight 100. But it took off before I was able to get there.

Senga

[moose135]

Let me torment you a little more, Senga :wink:

I took that shot back in 1980 or 1981 - here's another from that day, check out the background...

http://www.moose135photography.com/Airplanes/Airliners-and-Airport-Spotting/Old-Airliner-Photos/JM198103YU-AMADC-10JFK003/141730902_R3NRU-L-2.jpg

[Tom_Turner]

I never saw any of those in person, (might have seen Interflug as a kid, not sure) but the IL-62 from Air Ukraine in that yellow/blue was especially beautiful.

Tom, there was also a short lease from Guyana Airways of an IL-62 (full colors!). I think it was leased from Aeroflot can't remember but either way I'm sure it had to have been used to JFK. Seeing all those pax IL-62s and 707s at JFK today would be PLANE HEAVEN. Dang I wish I was older.

Mario, that was one of the relatively few things I can think of now that make me thankful to be "older" - yes it was plane heaven.

The Guyana Airways was I believe a Tu-154. It got grounded for a bit at JFK due to a serious engine problem - and - a new engine was flown in from MIA to JFK on a DC-6 apparently. Story I read in Airways or Airliners some years back.

I did get to see the Guyana full colors 707 into JFK. Roughly around the time Hispaniola (?) was flying a short fuselage pax DC-8 into JFK as well. Pakistan, Lan Chile, and Royal Jordanian were amongst the last 707s cargo into JFK.

The Guyana may have been the last regular scheduled pax 707 flight into JFK, but as for the DC-8, MGM Grand Air was around at roughly the same time, but those were probably the last two for the DC-8s (short fuselage pax).

[Mayi757]

I never saw any of those in person, (might have seen Interflug as a kid, not sure) but the IL-62 from Air Ukraine in that yellow/blue was especially beautiful.

Tom, there was also a short lease from Guyana Airways of an IL-62 (full colors!). I think it was leased from Aeroflot can't remember but either way I'm sure it had to have been used to JFK. Seeing all those pax IL-62s and 707s at JFK today would be PLANE HEAVEN. Dang I wish I was older.

Mario, that was one of the relatively few things I can think of now that make me thankful to be "older" - yes it was plane heaven.

The Guyana Airways was I believe a Tu-154. It got grounded for a bit at JFK due to a serious engine problem - and - a new engine was flown in from MIA to JFK on a DC-6 apparently. Story I read in Airways or Airliners some years back.

I did get to see the Guyana full colors 707 into JFK. Roughly around the time Hispaniola (?) was flying a short fuselage pax DC-8 into JFK as well. Pakistan, Lan Chile, and Royal Jordanian were amongst the last 707s cargo into JFK.

The Guyana may have been the last regular scheduled pax 707 flight into JFK, but as for the DC-8, MGM Grand Air was around at roughly the same time, but those were probably the last two for the DC-8s (short fuselage pax).

Yes Tom they leased two TU-154s for the JFK and Miami runs, one in full livery, the other in partial Tarom colors which ended up crashing a few years later due to an engine failure. Wonder if it's the same one with engine problems earlier.

Here's the rare IL-62. The popular photo sites bloated with over a million pics still don't have it:

http://i767.photobucket.com/albums/xx311/mayi757/th_GuyanaCCCP-86492.jpg (http://i767.photobucket.com/albums/xx311/mayi757/GuyanaCCCP-86492.jpg)

You are right about Guyana Airways being the last 707 pax operator to JFK (last pax one at Miami as well). If I remember right, Royal Jordanian (Cargo) was the last commercial 707 at JFK, around 98-99. As far as DC-8s, MGM was a charter airline and likely the last pax DC-8s at JFK. I used to see them in Orlando, usually parked away from the terminals by the FBO on the west side. Hispaniola might have been charter given Dominicana was the main airline of the DR to the USA and they were still around in the early 90's.