PHILADELPHIA Airport 20 YEARS AGO! (1998)

[@MattsAviationChannel]

Ohhh WOW even a Swissair B747 for the dessert :) Fantastic good old memory vid! Thank you very much for sharing!!!

[@justplanes]

You're very welcome, glad you enjoyed it!

[@buffey]

Thanks for bringing back great memories at my old stomping grounds, PHL. Classic!

[@ASAviation]

Awesome!!! Loved the NWA and AirTran DC-9's!!!

[@m.hstudioproductions6642]

AirTran inherited their DC-9s from the ValuJet merger back in November of '97.

[@1812AndMore]

I certainly preferred the old AA livery seen here over the current design.

[@kiwifruit467]

I agree ist better the new one makes me sick

[@mwg1026]

Those retro liveries though, I love them!!!

[@chanman4rings]

That's some great footage guys.... Throwback Thursday indeed. Thanks for that

[@457azazazaz]

This truely was the golden age of aviation, thank you JustPlanes.

[@Nlangkirby135]

My hometown airport. Great video.

[@DMSDrummer]

same

[@jimkerr5426]

My home airport too. Love the old days like this!

[@williamb.1582]

So neat to see what things used to be like here. Much more variety (most of what we have now are regionals or US A320 family). I used to live right under the flight path; too bad I didn't appreciate it as a child. Surprising to see 747s, the best we usually do now are Lufthansa A340s. However, the other day, a BA 787 came in. What a great surprise!

[@aj742]

Simply awesome! I had no clue Swissair flew its 743s between ZRH and PHL, nice catch!

[@justplanes]

Indeed... with a stop in BOS

[@TomsPlanes]

Man I wish it still looked like that. Also wish there was that good of a spot to watch rotations today. The UPS terminal is in the way now.

[@ZurichAirportSpotter]

The good old times! Thanks for sharing :)

[@alanmorgan4397]

Great video. I especially loved the Swissair 747 300 and noticed the BA 747 200 as well. That one must have clocked up some miles.

[@TheAviator121296]

Air Jamaica 03:41 my fav part of this video :)

[@rtfe83able]

Awesome memories at PHL! Thanks for sharing!

[@Swissman81]

good old swissair...good old vhs, damn im getting old :) great upload!

[@ChrisPMT]

0:33 I was on G-VIIM from London Heathrow to Montreal back in 2014!

[@Kr3aMo1]

It was so great seeing Air Jamaica in this video!

[@megatop412]

This was the year I moved to Philly...didn't manage to get out there a lot until '07 but managed to photograph some of these lovelies around '99-'01. That bank the Post Office made at 4:25 was SICK! A last minute change to the right side of Rwy27? Also, news flash people- BA to return 747 service to PHL next month! Giggity!!!

[@IvyANguyen]

Wow! This is so cool! I used to go planespotting back in that very year. They added something to the runway in 2000 or so and as such the roadways surrounding the airport are totally different now compared to back then.

[@turnagec]

Nice! PHL First year I flew into PHL. Thanks

[@Lee247Jamaica]

Love that air Jamaica

[@CoastersBolts]

I loved that USAir bare-metal livery.

[@owancejackie]

Awesome 👏

[@ChrisZoomER]

So that's what Philly was like before I was born, a lot more low-bypass jets!

[@LazyGamerScotland]

That ba 747 Landing was magnificent!

[@jimkerr5426]

It's great the PHL has a scheduled daily B747 again!

[@otterman11]

Fantastic

[@RobGilmore69]

In the first 3:45 of the video, you get USAir/US Airways, American, TWA, and America West. Who'da thunk that 22 years later, they'd all be merged together as American Airlines

[@northguy9761]

Good video with older aircraft and liveries but the segments were too short and cut off.

[@mytmousemalibu]

Very cool, reminiscing.... The days gone by.... I do wish each clip was a bit longer, missing out on the sounds. Like when the DC-8 passes over, I wanted to hear those JT3D's screamin! Love those ole low bypass turbofans. At least Allegiant is still operating MD-83's. Last of the low-bypass thunderliners!

[@457azazazaz]

That's right but they won't be there for long. Some call classic aviation noise but I call it heaven. Now everyone is into the new 'plastic planes' and forgetting the past.

[@bosimmons2626]

So many defunct airlines :(

[@juansipayung6454]

Bo Simmons is great

[@mrrockdaddy100]

and 1:50 and east wind and pro air where are they from?

[@JustinLHopkins]

Interesting how the planes have a 1-800 number instead of a .com 😄

[@mariafrasunkiewicz918]

Fast action. I love it!

[@alexmartin0824]

1:54 damn that was a HUGE bounce, almost took off again lol

[@ldl9280]

Hold the phone here. Are you telling me there is a JP PHL video - from any period? I sure hope so. Dont know how I missed that, if there is, so i'm heading over to the JP store hoping to see PHL available in any format. I saved this for later viewing just in case. Thank you for sharing. donl

[@justplanes]

Yes there is a video of PHL from 1998 and you can download it on our website...

[@margaretroselle8610]

Love these jets!

[@jernito]

All jets and no Dash's? One of the most frequent aircraft in Philly must have been the Dash-8 up to around 2017!

[@habyss]

Cool to see a US Air F100.

[@LMthe0418]

Nowadays there isn't really anything special at PHL. Good to see that there were some unique jets pre-pandemic.

[@zj37]

I was not on this planet that time

[@alfredopratico]

+JustPlanes, Please make a new PHL video!

[@robbieguldi602]

So much more diversity! Nowadays, there are far fewer types of aircraft at PHL, and certainly less widebodies. At least BA is sending a 747-400 here even if there are no 777s and too many A330s. Don't get me wrong, I like them too, but I want more than A320/A321s, B737s, Eee175/E145s, a few B757s and A330s, and one B747 and A340. Thank goodness BA will ad a B787 route and AA will ad passenger 767 routes to go with the FedEx and UPS B767Fs and MD-11Fs

[@TorontoAviationVideos]

Delta 727 double bounce on landing at 1:52

[@jr13227]

Some wind shear at 4:20?

[@theuser698]

That smoke

[@xuFreq]

Air aruba🔥

[@kevw172]

My local international airport is philadephia. Tho its only American Airbuses and regional jets, wonder where this era went.

[@jimbranca1565]

deltas best badass livery

[@Altenholz]

The old mellenium!

[@ferrariscuderia4290]

Saved the best for last.

[@willthethrill6431]

Before Winglets!

[@mrrockdaddy100]

who is that at 1:27

[@justplanes]

Miami Air 727-200

[@mrrockdaddy100]

o ok

[@brando5450]

woooo first!

[@DanielRodriguez-kp2xq]

mexicana :D