Absolutely agree. I believe it's actually closer (or at least quicker) to TPA than it is MCO. MCO is a larger draw than TPA. If you live East of 98 you tend to associate yourself with Orlando. If you live west of 98, you tend to associate yourself with Tampa. In this case, LAL is west of 98 off of ...
Jump to posthttps://twitter.com/IntelCrab/status/1779249616740884824?t=X44tyngiiU2fYKleEo13hA&s=19 A report that a USAF KC-135 is squawking 7700 over Iraq. That’s not entirely abnormal. There is something about military aircraft and how they transmit. The tracking services don’t interpret the data right. D...
Jump to postNot sure if it’s FR24 traffic or gps jamming, but lot of odd flight paths around Israel that don’t make sense, even with the closures
Jump to postUPS already moved USPS, albeit at a much smaller volume level to FedEx. Any 5XXX flight is a pure postal flight and most gateways get some off the day sort. UPS has a lot of the postal contracted out so the cost is pretty low. And with the day sort in SDF a fraction of what it was just 2 or 3 years ...
Jump to postThe first bullet point of responsibilities does speak to carriers, so it's not just points earning/redemption with hotels and rental car partners. Maybe Chase got after them and pointed out how much potential credit card spending they're leaving behind without European flight redemption. They offer...
Jump to postYou have to wonder at what point DHL reevaluates its US operation. The failed UPS deal back in 2008 may have been the most cost effective solution for them. Especially considering the overwhelming bulk of the packages in the US have to be destination packages; with very little origin.
Jump to postHow appealing is a 3 per week flight for business travelers, you know, the ones that buy business class seats? If Delta loses a lot of this traffic, can the route become successful enough to merit daily flights? It’s going to depend on what days it flies. I know there are plenty of a.net people who...
Jump to post2346 nautical miles is nowhere near the range of this plane. Not with 239 passengers, a load of baggage, high temperature at the departure station and a bit of headwind apparently. Besides 2346 nm is only the great circle distance, the planned route (avoiding Syria) is usually a lot longer. It's no...
Jump to postF and J are easily attainable with a miles card. While the airline I have a card through doesn’t have F, I get enough points every year to where I could book a round trip J ticket if it was on another carrier. I put everything on the card except loan payments and pay it off every month. I pretty eas...
Jump to postThe A380 would have worked for package cargo not so much for general cargo. The decks are too low, and the floor structure is not robust enough and too much custom tailored per airline. At the same time, plenty of used off lease, twin engined 777-300ER are available for freighter conversion. It doe...
Jump to postB6 RNO-JFK. Scheduled for a midnight departure. 715ish arrival into JFK. The on time performance was always horrendous. Don’t think it was ever on time the 4 times I took it. After 2 3+ hour delays in a row I put my foot down and told my wife the lack of a connection just isn’t worth it to me anymore.
Jump to postWhat’s happening? Demand is high and they’re making money so they’re raising the fares.
Jump to postThis is one of those questions that I do think is important to ask, but the response really should be "what's the better alternative and what problems could that alternative unintentionally introduce?" A system where you're just muting pilots who think they're talking on frequency is clea...
Jump to postCould the flight number be the ship number? Would explain why it changes daily and follows it own route
Jump to postThese small feeder aircraft are clapped out. It’s always sad when they go down, but it’s time to really evaluate the next step.
Jump to postWhen I lived in GFK I took a flight out of YWG for Thanksgiving as the round trip to LGA was about 700 dollars cheaper. Both US and Canadian immigration were a breeze when I explained the situation.
Jump to postInteresting observation I made today - UPS didn’t run any of their regional night sorts last night. Everything funneled through SDF. It wasn’t that long ago that was fairly unthinkable. Really goes to show how much spare capacity there is in the network. MLK day was always a slight volume decrease. ...
Jump to postBig win for Delta. I believe Delta and other Wall Street people (Bankers, Investment Houses) are behind the scenes pulling the strings. Most companies do that on the political side, of course, this administration can be bought and paid for. Absolute Power is corruptive! Just saying. Absurd to call ...
Jump to postI remember American Eagle with a significant operation with their gates being where United is today and American mainline being where Southwest and Alaska is today. American Eagle eliminated their BOS base just before the US Airways/American merger. I don’t remember United or Southwest or Alaska be...
Jump to postGreat, another 6 months of common issues on every aircraft being posted because it’s a 737…
Jump to postNOTAM started December 28th so it can’t be too critical
Jump to postThere is still so much capacity in the market right now putting them somewhere they can make money makes sense. Even the integrators are doing stuff with the fleet they wouldn’t do a couple years ago,
Jump to postI can’t think of a company more intertwined with politics than Boeing. The US government would never let it be sold to the French.
Jump to postNext up on the parking parade is UPS MD-11F N282UP which ferried to ROW yesterday. P&W powered, former Swissair. 91k hours and 18k cycles as of October 2023 5980215 She sat on my ramp for a week once with a massive hydraulic issue. We cringed every time she came in after that. One I’m happy to ...
Jump to postInteresting, I did not realize UPS didn't serve BNA via air at all. I would have figured they'd at least have flights from some of the other UPS air hubs* like PHL. I imagine that makes some of the early AM deliveries (I think UPS SLA is <8:30am) challenging. *I don't know what exactly UPS calls &q...
Jump to postNo, but the larger point is correct; the distances to SDF and MEM are pretty similar. The route to the hub of a carrier that doesn’t truck air shipments is flown. The route to the hub of a carrier that gladly trucks air shipments where that makes sense is. FedEx Express has plenty of big rigs. I do...
Jump to postSeems like Boeing is not nearly as innovative as Airbus or the COMAC now. I think we will see many more airlines buying from China now this next decade as they seem to have the vision for new planes. Hopefully BOEING can improve. What aircraft in development in China actually has a chance of gettin...
Jump to postPersonal favorite from the cargo side is TVF-SDF/MEM. IFL runs it for 5X/FX for a special customer in Thief River Falls. Weird place to have a flight like that. Especially with daily widebodies into FAR.
Jump to postI can't really follow you. No, they don't carry more fuel than the route calls for (planned) just because it's 'ULH' and/or because it's New York City. I just think offering a field trip in New England to customers who paid a premium to fly SIN-NYC non-stop is not the right thing to do if I could a...
Jump to postRough evening at HVN. Heavy fog again and it looks like 4 aircraft are currently in holds.
Jump to postI’m aware of that. Except that’s still not a successful outcome. And yeah I realized the negativity (if that’s what your getting at, and not that I’d assume they would otherwise crash) but I still hold that opinion. Not quite sure what you're trying to get at here. What's not a successful outcome, ...
Jump to postIs there any fall out so far from the DHL workers at CVG going on strike. What is going on with the operations there? https://www.freightwaves.com/news/dhl-express-workers-begin-strike-at-cincinnati-air-hub An Atlas pilot on Reddit was saying that they were parking at the Amazon ramp for the night ...
Jump to postHigh paid unions rarely care about other unions and frankly don't associate. Have seen these fluffy unions go to work past construction trade lines without batting an eye Why would they bat an eye? Different set of labor rules and trade unions aren't governed by the RLA. Because it’s still organize...
Jump to postNone of the company rigs I’ve seen have sleeper rigs. UPS Freight (now TForce Freight) did/does. But you're right, never seen one on a regular UPS truck. FedEx definitely uses teams. Does UPS move any long-haul road freight with non-organic pull? (Obviously, they use tons of TOFC, as does FedEx.) U...
Jump to postA true team meaning if a driver and co-driver utilize their hours correctly, then you can easily go from the East Coast to the West Coast in 44 to 45 hours depending on origin and final destination . It would not surprise me if UPS is shipping that way via double or triple trailers or putting it on...
Jump to postA true team meaning if a driver and co-driver utilize their hours correctly, then you can easily go from the East Coast to the West Coast in 44 to 45 hours depending on origin and final destination . It would not surprise me if UPS is shipping that way via double or triple trailers or putting it on...
Jump to postBetting this is a cargo heavy day that they can sell some tours tickets on.
Jump to postHave done a number of CRJ-200 flights and never had one of the torture chamber experiences everybody on this site likes to conjure up. The dramatics are always on full blast when CRJ talk comes about.
They saved me countless hours of driving from GFK-MSP, and for that I’m thankful.
stormwave534 wrote:iRISH251 wrote:With a 2,700-foot runway I don't think any jets would touch down there. Would they even risk a touch-and-go?
A carrier deck is less than 1000 feet. Why not?
Arusin wrote:JFK to LAX
LGA to ORD
Those are two that come to mind
MIA to and from ATL has to be up there too.
One of my favourite flights: a BA DC-10 LGW-JFK with 10 pax. Also remember all those empty flights are cargo full- there was a NY Times article about ghost flights a few years ago (in those cases the pax are bumped to the next flight) so no cabin crew need to be onboard. Those ghost flights were wh...
Jump to postIf UPS can move it by truck, they do. BNA is easily in range of ground based moves to/from SDF.
Jump to postJust out of curiosity, with California exporting so much fresh produce out of the Central Valley across the world, are they mainy exported out of LAX? And is fresh produce destined across North America (including places that are "far away" like NYC or Canada) still transported by truck or...
Jump to postJust out of curiosity, with California exporting so much fresh produce out of the Central Valley across the world, are they mainy exported out of LAX? And is fresh produce destined across North America (including places that are "far away" like NYC or Canada) still transported by truck or...
Jump to postBobRoss wrote:I think the A380 story is far from being over, and I mean worldwide. I could see ANA building up a larger fleet of used airframes.
UPS MD-11(F), N270UP performing flight 5X-2111 from New York JFK,NY to Louisville,KY (USA) at 26 September, was climbing out of JFK's runway 31L when the crew stopped the climb at about 11,000 feet due to the failure of the #3 engine (PW4460, right hand engine). The aircraft returned to JFK for a s...
Jump to postBDL-MSP diverted to MSN due to WX after already taking a 3 hour delay because of WX out of BDL….it was a long day
Jump to postWith more than half the plane configured with premium seating I'd challenge the view that B6 caters to leisure segment. B6 has lots of corporate contracts in their 2 largest bases, Boston and New York. Germany is hard to get into for any airline because Lufthansa and its partners have such a strong...
Jump to postI’m aware of the issues, I work there. You were implying that throughput through ZJX was an issue with this hurricane. I was stating it was not. The issue was everyone thought they could get in and get out and they didn’t make it. It hasn’t even made landfall.. I’m aware, but we had the effects fro...
Jump to postFor 5X it is usually a combination of (1) Service Level & (2) Postal Code/SLIC. For example UPS2061 is a scheduled 2 Day Air flight going from BDL to SDF. The postal codes delivered out of that building are 061XX. 1-999 Next Day Air + All International 1000-1999 Next Day Air Domestic US 2000-29...
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